The thermal decomposition of 2-chloroethyl methyl ether (2-CEME) was studied in the temperatures between 1175 and 1467 K. The decomposition of 2-CEME happens predominantly via molecular elimination reactions than via C

C and C

O bond fission channels. The major decomposition products are methane, ethylene and methanol. The minor are acetaldehyde and ethane. The Arrhenius expression for the overall decomposition of 2-CEME was obtained to be
To simulate the distribution of reactant and products over the experimentally studied temperatures between 1175 and 1467 K, a reaction scheme was constructed with 45 species and 71 elementary reactions. The pressure and temperature dependent rate coefficients were calculated for various unimolecular dissociation pathways in 2-CEME using RRKM theory. The high pressure limit temperature dependent rate coefficient for the total decomposition of 2-CEME was obtained to be
(500–2000 K) = (2.55 ± 0.21) × 10
14 exp (−(67.6 kcal mol
−1± 3.0)/RT) s
−1.