Pyrolysis of trichloronitrosomethane

Abstract

Trichloronitrosomethane, partly in the liquid phase, decomposed at 98° to give nitric oxide, carbon tetrachloride, N-(dichloromethylene)trichloromethylamine, trichloronitromethane, nitrosyl chloride, and carbonyl chloride. After 3·5 h, no CCl₃NO could be recovered. Although there was a low yield of less volatile, unidentified materials, the previously reported product, N-(dichloromethylene)trichloromethylamine N-oxide, could not be positively identified.