Some Aspects of the Chemistry of Alkoxy Radicals
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INTRODUcTION Alkoxy radicals, R0, are one of the most important of the transient intermediates in radical reactions. They are the primary homolytic scission products of organic peroxides, nitrates, nitrites. hyponitrites, and hypohalites and also play an important role in autoxidation processes. For some ten years our group at Columbia University has been investigating their properties and reactions, using the radical chain decomposition of organic hypohalites, typically t-butyl hypochiorite, as model reactions. This paper summarizes our more important findings.
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