AbstractThe 81Br and 35Cl NQR spectra of anhydrous Group 1, tetraalkylammonium, and thallium(I) 2,6-dichlorophenolates, 2,4,6-trichlorophenolates, and 4-bromo-2,6-dichlorophenolates were searched for evidence of solid-state cation-organochlorine interactions that might, for example, be (in part) responsible for the difference in the thermal decomposition reactions of these salts (to give the supertoxic environmental pollutants, the polychlorinated dibenzodioxins) versus those of the corresponding Group 11 chlorophenolate complexes, which do not decompose to dioxins.For cations ranging in size from tetraethylammonium to potassium, the total range of 35Cl NQR frequencies in 2,6-dichlorophenolate and 2,4,6-trichlorophenolate salts is only 1.401 MHz, which, although larger than the 0.7 MHz range likely in molecular chlorocarbons, is smaller than in individual chlorophenolates of copper(I) and silver(I) (up to 2.0 MHz). In sodium and thallium(I) 2,4,6-trichlorophenolates substantially large frequency shifts (ca. 2.0 MHz) occur, to higher frequencies for the para-chlorines and lower frequencies for the ortho-chlorines (Na only). These disappear even in closely related compounds and show a pattern that seems unrelated to the decomposition products of the chlorophenolates.
Sources and fate of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, dibenzofurans and related compounds in human environments.