“…[157] In general, dichlorinations of alkenes with PhICl 2 in chlorocarbon solvents follow either ar adical chain mechanism (Type V) or an ionic mechanism (Type Io rT ype II), depending on the reaction conditions. [115,158,159] Ther adical chain mechanism (Scheme 51), originally proposed by Bloomfield, [160] can be initiated either thermally or photochemically (in the absence of radical inhibitors such as oxygen), and support for this mechanism comes from studies of certain alkenes as mechanistic probes for ionic versus radical dichlorination, including norbornene, [24b,121, 158, 159] cyclooctene, [126] cyclooctadienes, [107,121] cyclopentadiene and 1,3-cyclohexadiene, [115] vinylcyclopropanes, [116] and others. [159] By analogy to radical dichlorinations with SO 2 Cl 2 (see above), [142] it has been proposed that ClC is the chain-carrying radical, [158,159] although Ph(Cl)IC could also be the chaincarrier.…”