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Gas-liquid chromatographic analyses of chlorination products of propionyl chloride

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Abstract Photochlorination of propionyl chloride with chlorine in the liquid phase at room temperature gives all eleven chloropropionyl chlorides from the mono-to the pentachloro isomer. The process was investigated every 2 h by gas-liquid chromatography, and the products were identified and estimated as their methyl esters by comparison with model compounds. The isomer distribution of the products was studied in detail. Because the process favours the 3-position, the main components were 3-chloropropionyl chloride up to 15 h, 3,3-dichloropropionyl chloride between 15 and 29 h, 3,3,3-trichloropropionyl chloride between 29 and 56 h and pentachloropropionyl chloride after 56 h of chlorination.