Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed)

855. Free radicals and radical stability. Part XVII.(m-Hydroxyphenyl) diphenylmethanol and the corresponding free radical

ST Bowden, KI Beynon

Index: Bowden; Beynon Journal of the Chemical Society, 1957 , p. 4253,4255

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Abstract

Formic acid solutions of the (hydroxyphenyl) diphenylmethanols decompose when heated, with evolution of carbon dioxide and formation of the corresponding methane. 2 The relative rates of reduction at 77" conform to the sequence: unsubstituted zo> p> m. In the early