The chlorination of activated charcoals KAU and SCN with CCl 4 vapor in the temperature range 300-600°C and also the thermal stability of the added chlorine has been studied. It is shown that chlorination with CCl 4 vapor led to the addition of up to 22 mass % (6.2 mmol/g) of chlorine to the surface layer of the carbon. The added chlorine is desorbed from the surface with formation of HCl, while at temperatures above 500°C desorption of chlorine goes practically to completion. The effective rate constants and the energies of activation of the processes of chlorination and desorption have been found.Investigation of the halogenation of carbon materials (CM) has prospects in connection with several problems. In the first place halogenation and subsequent nucleophilic substitution of halogen is a classical organic method, characterized by high yields for the introduction into the molecule of various groups containing N, S, O and other heteroatoms [1][2][3]. Secondly, the study of the results of halogenation under various conditions (amount of halogen added, evolution of hydrogen halides, etc.) as a result of a sufficiently selective process permits the establishment of the concentration of active centers in the surface, and thus obtains valuable information about the structure and characteristics of the surface layers of various CM. Most important is the determination of the temperature range in which the maximum amount of halogen is added to the surface of the CM.Halogenation of CM, and chlorination in particular, has attracted sufficient study [4][5][6]. However the kinetics of chlorination, the influence of temperature, reaction time, and the nature of the chlorinating agent on the concentration and properties of the surface chlorine have been insufficiently studied.In the present work the kinetics of the chlorination of activated carbon (AC) in CCl 4 vapor over a wide temperature range and the thermochemical properties of the chemisorbed chlorine have been studied. This method was chosen because in practice it does not lead to the parallel oxidation of the surface of the activated carbon.For this study two activated carbons were used -KAU (natural) and SCN (synthetic) with specific surfaces of 1300 and 1100 m 2 /g and pore volumes of 0.45 and 0.41cm 3 /g respectively. Chlorination was carried out both non-isothermally and isothermally with gravimetric control of the path of the reaction with rate of flow of the argon carrier gas of 50 mL/min. The concentration of CCl 4 in thee flow was 17.4 torr (2.03·10 -3 mol/L) and the argon was saturated with CCl 4 vapor at 20°C. The weight of aliquots of AC was 50 mg.
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