Kinetic applications of electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. XIII. Di-tert-butylmethyl and related radicals

GD Mendenhall, D Griller, D Lindsay…

Index: Mendenhall,G.D. et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1974 , vol. 96, p. 2441 - 2447

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Abstract: Di-tert-butylmethyl, B, CH, and a wide variety of related radicals, eg, B3C, B2CCHzC8H5, B, CCH2P-(0)(OEt) z, etc., are extremely long lived when compared with less highly substituted alkyl radicals. They show no sign of dimerizing even at low temperatures. At ambient temperatures these radicals decay with first-order kinetics and Arrhenius parameters for these reactions are reported. The decay mechanism could not be ...