Reactivity Documentation
Hydrocarbons, Aliphatic Saturated |
mixed with |
Halogenating Agents |
Summary
- Corrosive: Reaction products may be corrosive
- Flammable: Reaction products may be flammable
- Generates gas: Reaction liberates gaseous products and may cause pressurization
- Generates heat: Exothermic reaction at ambient temperatures (releases heat)
- Intense or explosive reaction: Reaction may be particularly intense, violent, or explosive
- Toxic: Reaction products may be toxic
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May produce the following gases:
- Hydrogen Halide
- Halocarbons
Details
Reactivity Predictions (for each pair of reactive groups)
Halogenating Agents
Hazard Predictions
- Corrosive: Reaction products may be corrosive
- Flammable: Reaction products may be flammable
- Generates gas: Reaction liberates gaseous products and may cause pressurization
- Generates heat: Exothermic reaction at ambient temperatures (releases heat)
- Intense or explosive reaction: Reaction may be particularly intense, violent, or explosive
- Toxic: Reaction products may be toxic
Methane will ignite or explode on contact with BrF5 (Mellor, J.W. 1956. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 2, Supp. 1, p. 172. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.).
Methane or ethane will explode on contact with dioxygenyl tetrafluoroborate at low temperatures (Goetschel, C.T. et al. 1969. Journal of the American Chemical Society 91:4706.).
Hydrocarbons explode on contact with ClF3 at or below ambient temperatures (Brower, K.R. 1986. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry 31:333-349.).
Hydrocarbons ignite or explode on contact with fluorine, even at cryogenic temperatures (Mellor, J.W. 1940. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 2, p. 11. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.; 1956. Volume 2, Supplemental 1. pp. 198; The Chemical Elements and their Compounds, Sidgwick, N.V., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1950, pp. 1117).
Low molecular weight hydrocarbons will ignite on contact with IF7 (Booth, H.S. et al. 1947. Chemical Reviews 41:428.).
Methane reacts with halogens in diffuse sunlight to yield toxic halocarbons and HX gases (Rodd, E. H, Ed. Chemistry of Organic Compounds. New York: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1951. Vol. I pp. 246).
Potential Gas Byproducts
- Halocarbons
- Hydrogen Halide (HX)