ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 34, Number 1
JKCSEZ 34(1)
February 20, 1990 

The rate of chlorine-exchange reaction of antimony trichloride with benzyl, α-phenyl ethyl and diphenyl methyl chlorides in nitrobenzene have been determined. The results indicate that the chlorine-exchange reaction follows second-order kinetics with respect to antimony trichloride and first-order kinetics with respect to organic chlorides. Rate = k3[SbCl3]2 [Org-Cl] The rate constants of chlorine-exchange of antimony trichloride with organic chloride increase in the following order of the organic chlorides. Benzyl chloride < α-phenyl ethyl chloride < diphenyl methyl chloride The mechanism of the chlorine-exchange reactions has been proposed.