Abstract
ON correlating the data in two recent papers1, 2 on the thermal chlorination of methane and methyl chloride, it appears that there is a possibility that the four hydrogen atoms of methane are not simultaneously equally available for chlorination, but that after the substitution of one of them the other three are.
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MASON, J. Thermal Chlorination of Methane. Nature 129, 97–98 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129097b0
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