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.