Kinetics and mechanism of reactions of NF₂ with olefins. Reinterpretation of existing data and estimation of C - N bond energies of alkyldifluoroamines

Existing kinetic data on reactions of NF₂ with various olefins have been reinterpreted in accordance with a corrected reaction mechanism. Arrhenius parameters for revised rate constants extracted from the data are tabulated. The assumed mechanism was tested by modelling with the RRKM theory. The experimental energy relationships have been combined with recent thermochemical data to obtain estimates of the unknown C - N bond dissociation energies of a series of compounds of the type RNF₂.