Title RADIOCHLORINE EXCHANGE REACTIONS

Abstract approved (Major professor) As part of a continuing study of sulfur containing non-aqueous solvents, the present investigation was undertaken in an effort to ob-tain a better understanding of the solvent sulfuryl chloride. The primary object of the investigation involved a study of the rate of radiochlorine exchange between sulfuryl and thionyl chloride in mix-tures of the two, the radioisotopic tracer chlorine-36 being used. The principal motivation for such experiments rested in the hope of being able to find some evidence relative to the possible significance of an ionic dissociation process for sulfuryl chloride. The system was of particular interest in presenting analogies to at least two related types of systems previously studied, namely the thionyl chloride- thionyl bromide system (where rapid radiosulfur exchange was observed) and the thionyl chloride- sulfur monochloride syste