The I 2-catalyzed isomerization of allyl chloride to cis-and tmns-1 -chloro-l-propene was measured in a static system in the temperature range 225-329°C. Propylene was found as a side product, mainly at thr lower temperatures. The rate constant for an abstraction of a hydrogen atom from allyl chloride by an iodine atom was found to obey the equationUsing this activation energy together with 1 rt 1 kcal/mole for the activation energy for the reaction of H I with alkyl radicals gives DHO (CH2CHCHCI-H) = 88.6 =t 1.1 kcal/mole, and 7.4 i 1.5 kcal/mole as the stabilization energy (SE) of the chloroallyl radical. Using the results of Abell and Adolf on allyl fluoride and allyl bromide, we conclude DHO (CHZCHCHF-H) = 88.6 f 1.1 and DH" (CHtCHCHBr-H) = 89.4 =k 1.1 kcal/ mole; the SE of the corresponding radicals are 7.4 i 2.2 and 7.8 i 1.5 kcal/mole. The bond dissociation energies of the C-H bonds in the allyl halides are similar to that of propene, while the SE values are about 2 kcal/mole less than in the allyl radical, resulting perhaps more from the stabilization of alkyl radicals by a-halogen atoms than from differences in the unsaturated systems.