Reactivity Documentation
Halogenating Agents |
mixed with |
Metals, Alkali, Very Active |
Summary
- Explosive: Reaction products may be explosive or sensitive to shock or friction
- Flammable: Reaction products may be flammable
- Generates heat: Exothermic reaction at ambient temperatures (releases heat)
- Intense or explosive reaction: Reaction may be particularly intense, violent, or explosive
Details
Reactivity Predictions (for each pair of reactive groups)
Halogenating Agents
Hazard Predictions
- Explosive: Reaction products may be explosive or sensitive to shock or friction
- Flammable: Reaction products may be flammable
- Generates heat: Exothermic reaction at ambient temperatures (releases heat)
- Intense or explosive reaction: Reaction may be particularly intense, violent, or explosive
POCl3 explodes on contact with sodium (Lemke, C.H, V.H. Markant. 2005. Sodium and Sodium Alloys. In Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Online)).
Liquid sodium may ignite or explode on contact with PCl3 or PCl5 (Mellor, J. 1940. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 8, p. 1016. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.; Mellor, J. 1941. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 2, p. 470. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.).
Potassium explodes on contact with diselenium dichloride, seleninyl chloride, sulfur dichloride, or seleninyl bromide (Dickinson, F. 1963. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 2, Supplement 3, p. 1564-1568. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.; Mellor, J. 1947. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 10, p. 642-646, 908, 912. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.).
Potassium reacts violently, and potentially explosively, with F2, Cl2, or Br2 (Chiu, K-W. 2005. Potassium. In Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Online)).
Potassium ignites in F2 and Cl2, explodes in contact with Br2, and incandesces on contact with I2 (Mellor, J. W. 1941. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Volume 2, pp. 114, 469. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.; Dickinson, F. 1963. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 2, Supplement 3, p. 1563. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.).
Potassium ignites on contact with I2 (Chiu, K-W. 2005. Potassium. In Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Online)), ICl3 (Pascal, P. 1960. Nouveau Traité de Chimie Minérale. Vol. 16, p. 578. Masson et Cie.), PCl3 (Mellor, J. 1940. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 8, p. 1006. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.), or ClF3 (Urben, P.G. 1995. Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, 5th Edition. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 1237).
Lithium ignites spontaneously with ClF3 (Urben, P.G. 1995. Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, 5th Edition. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 1237).
Lithium reacts violently with BrF5, and they may ignite on contact (Mellor, J.W. 1956. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 2, Supplement 1, p. 172. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.).
Sodium forms shock-sensitive explosive mixtures with PCl5, PBr3, SCl2, BBr3, and SBr2 (Cuielleron, J. 1945. Bull. Soc. Chim. (France) 12:88).
Lithium and bromine form impact-sensitive explosive mixtures (Staudinger, H. 1925. Z. Elektrochem. 31:549).
Lithium reacts exothermically with halogens; the reactions also emit light (Kamienski, C.W. 2005. Lithium and Lithium Compounds. In Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Online)).