Studies of the slow combustion of isopentane

✍ Scribed by C.F. Cullis; E. Fersht

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1963
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 587 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(63)90211-6

✦ Synopsis

Imperial College of Science The simple monohydroperoxides derived from isopentane have been shown by gas-liquid chromatography to be absent from the products of combustion of this hydrocarbon, although substantial amounts of other largely unidentified peroxidic compounds are produced during the reaction. In agreement with this finding, the formation of the non-peroxidic products, which include acetone, methyl ethyl ketone. the corresponding epoxide, can readily acetaldehyde, methyl alcohol, 2-methyl-but-2-ene and be accounted for in terms of reactions of amyl and omylperoxy radicals other than those involving the intermediate production of the corresponding monohydroperoxide.