Kinetics and Equilibria Interconverting Aqueous Inorganic Chloramines: Errors and Corrections

The three inorganic chloramines play central roles in aqueous chloramination processes. Mechanisms involving these species are required to obey the principle of detailed balancing, but very few published examples meet this requirement. There are at least 77 publications with chloramine mechanisms that violate the principle of detailed balancing. In this work, the violations are summarized, a set of reaction equilibrium constants and rate constants is proposed that should facilitate the development of acceptable mechanisms, and solutions to the published errors are proposed.