The Journal of Physical Chemistry

Self-termination and electronic spectra of substituted benzyl radicals in solution

RFC Claridge, H Fischer

Index: Claridge, Rodney F. C.; Fischer, Hanns Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1983 , vol. 87, # 11 p. 1960 - 1967

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Abstract

Several substituted benzyl radicals have been generated in liquid cyclohexane by the photolysis of symmetrically substituted dibenzyl ketones. The rate constants for self- termination to substituted bibenzyls, and absorption spectra of the transient radicals, have been measured by optical modulation spectroscopy. The termination rates are generally well described by the von Smoluchowski equation with a spin factor of Deviations are ...