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Silver Chloroacetate: Crystal Structure and Thermal Polymerization Mechanism
Author(s) -
Epple Matthias,
Kirschnick Holger
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
chemische berichte
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1099-0682
pISSN - 0009-2940
DOI - 10.1002/cber.19971300224
Subject(s) - chemistry , crystal structure , polymerization , solid state , salt (chemistry) , metal , polymer chemistry , chloride , crystallography , thermal analysis , thermal , organic chemistry , polymer , thermodynamics , physics
The structure of silver chloroacetate was determined by single‐crystal X‐ray structure analysis. This represents the first salt of a monohalogenoacetic acid with a monovalent metal whose structure was determined with high precision. The salt undergoes a thermally induced solid‐state polymerization to polyglycolide under elimination of silver chloride. A probable mechanism for a structure‐determined reaction in the solid state is discussed.