The kinetics of the reversible chain reaction between 2,5-dichloroquinone and 4-hydroxydiphenylamine

The paper presents the results obtained in a study of the kinetics of the reversible chain reaction between 2,5-dichloroquinone and 4-hydroxydiphenylamine (K eq = 3.2). We studied the dependence of the reaction rate on the concentrations of the initiator, initial reagents, and all products. The equations obtained earlier for the rate of reversible chain reactions and the method of equal concentrations suggested in this work were used to estimate the rate constants of most of the reaction mechanism elementary steps from the experimental data. The results obtained were shown to closely agree with and agument the data obtained earlier for the kinetics of the chain reaction between N-phenyl-1,4-benzoquinonemonoimine and 2,5-dichlorohydroquinone. On the whole, all the elementary steps of these two (forward and back) reversible chain reactions were characterized by rate constant values.