Rate constants for the reactions of free radicals with oxygen in solution

B Maillard, KU Ingold, JC Scaiano

Index: Maillard; Ingold; Scaino Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1983 , vol. 105, # 15 p. 5095 - 5099

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Abstract

Abstract: The kinetics of the reactions of several free radicals with oxygen have been examined in solution at 300 K using laser flash photolysis techniques. The reactions of resonancestabilized radicals are only slightly slower than those of nonstabilized radicals: for example, for tert-butyl (in cyclohexane), 4.93 X lo9; benzyl, 2.36 X lo9 (in cyclohexane); cyclohexadienyl (in benzene), 1.64 X lo9 M-'s-'. The reaction of n-Bu, Sn'radicals is ...