Thermally and photochemically initiated radical chain decomposition of ketone-free methyl (trifluoromethyl) dioxirane

W Adam, R Curci, ME Gonzalez Nunez…

Index: Adam, Waldemar; Curci, Ruggero; Nunez, Maria Elena Gonzalez; Mello, Rossella Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1991 , vol. 113, # 20 p. 7654 - 7658

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Abstract: Ketone-free solutions of methyl (trifluoromethy1) dioxirane (1) were obtained for the first time in several inert solvents, which enabled the study of the thermal and photochemical decompositions of dioxirane 1 in gas, solution, and matrix phases. Vacuum flash pyrolysis of dioxirane 1 afforded exclusively methyl trifluoroacetate (34. Both gas-and liquid-phase photolyses and thermal liquid-phase decomposition of dioxirane 1 involve a radical chain ...