Several attempts have been made to correlate the disproportionation and the combination rate constant ratio, k,/k,, of the alkyl radicals with the entropy change of the processes [ 1-31. Bradley [I] made a specific suggestion that the k,/k, ratio is a function of the entropy change of the processes
Disproportionation-combination ratios of large branched alkyl radicals
β Scribed by J. H. Georgakakos; B. S. Rabinovitch; C. W. Larson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1971
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 790 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0538-8066
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β¦ Synopsis
The disproportionation-combination reactions of radicals 4,4-dimethylpentyl-2 and 2,4-dimethylpentyl-2, produced by collisional stabilization of the respective chemically activated species, have been studied at 298"K, with and without getter radicals. Use of getters t-C4H9 and CzHs with 4,4-dimethylpentyl-2, and of iso-C3HT with 2,4-dimethylpentyl-2 yielded disproportionation-combination ratios A for parent-getter and t-C4H9-C 2H6 cross reactions, and for the mutual reaction of t-CqH9 radicals. The unstabilized hot radicals decompose, and these experiments also yielded values for the high-pressure rate constant k,, of 1.7OX 108sec-1 and 2.11 X 105ec-' for 4,4-dimethylpentyl-2 and 2,4dimethylpentyl-2, respectively. The results, compared to those for other large alkyl radical systems obtained earlier, suggest that steric effects influence the accessibility of H atoms for transfer .
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