Nitryl chloride is a volatile inorganic compound with formula ClNO2. At standard conditions it is a gas.

Formation

Nitryl chloride can be formed in the reaction of dinitrogen pentoxide with chlorides or hydrogen chloride:[1][2]

N2O5 + 2HCl → 2ClNO2 + H2O
N2O5 + NaCl → ClNO2 + NaNO3

Reactions

Nitryl chloride adds to olefins in a radical reaction.[3]

References

  1. ^ Gerber, R. Benny; Finlayson-Pitts, Barbara J.; Hammerich, Audrey Dell (2015-07-15). "Mechanism for formation of atmospheric Cl atom precursors in the reaction of dinitrogen oxides with HCl/Cl− on aqueous films" (PDF). Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 17 (29): 19360–19370. Bibcode:2015PCCP...1719360H. doi:10.1039/C5CP02664D. ISSN 1463-9084. PMID 26140681. S2CID 39157816.
  2. ^ Kelleher, Patrick J.; Menges, Fabian S.; DePalma, Joseph W.; Denton, Joanna K.; Johnson, Mark A.; Weddle, Gary H.; Hirshberg, Barak; Gerber, R. Benny (2017-09-18). "Trapping and Structural Characterization of the XNO2·NO3– (X = Cl, Br, I) Exit Channel Complexes in the Water-Mediated X– + N2O5 Reactions with Cryogenic Vibrational Spectroscopy". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 8 (19): 4710–4715. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02120. ISSN 1948-7185. PMID 28898581.
  3. ^ Stacey, F. W.; Harris, J. F., Jr. (2004-04-30). "Formation of carbon-hetero atom bonds by free-radical chain additions to carbon-carbon multiple bonds". In Denmark, Scott E. (ed.). Organic Reactions (1 ed.). Wiley. doi:10.1002/0471264180.or013.04. ISBN 978-0-471-26418-7.