Kinetic effects of an unusually large neutral to radical cation geometry change. Slow electron-transfer reactions between alkylhydrazines

SF Nelsen, DT Rumack, M Meot-Ner

Index: Nelsen, Stephen F.; Rumack, Daniel T.; Meot-Ner (Mautner), Michael Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1987 , vol. 109, # 5 p. 1373 - 1379

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Abstract

Abstract: High pressure mass spectrometry was used to measure the kinetics for electron transfer between 54 pairs of tetraalkylhydrazines containing acyclic and five-to seven- membered cyclic and bicyclic rings. Rate constants for electron transfer vary between 18 and 0.03 X lo-" cm3 molecule-'s-'at 550 K. Variable-temperature measurements were made on five pairs over a 77-120 range. The (Me, N),+,(EtMeN), pair gave E,= 2.7 kcal/mol. The ...