The Complex Chemistry of Peroxynitrite Decomposition: New Insights1

CE Richeson, P Mulder, VW Bowry…

Index: Richeson; Mulder; Bowry; Ingold Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1998 , vol. 120, # 29 p. 7211 - 7219

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Abstract

The yield of hydroxyl radicals produced in the decomposition of peroxynitrous acid (HOONO) at room temperature in deoxygenated and bicarbonate free water at pH~ 6.8 has been determined to be roughly 10%. This value rests on a detailed study of the decomposition of peroxynitrous acid in the presence of dimethyl sulfoxide with stopped-flow kinetics and product analyses by unequivocal methods. The HO/DMSO reaction is known ...