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Thermodynamic and kinetic evaluations of radical stabilities

Conference ·
OSTI ID:254772
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  1. Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL (United States); and others
When inserted into appropriate thermochemical cycles, redox data have proven invaluable in the studies of heterolytic and homolytic bond strengths. Judicious use of microelectrode-based cyclic voltammetry also enables determinations of the rates of degradation for several classes of solution phase reactive intermediates. Described in this paper are (1) new bond strength results from our group that shed light on the effects of {beta}-substituents on the thermodynamic stabilities of various carbon- and nitrogen-centered radicals; and (2) recent evaluations of second-order rate constants for dimerization reactions of electrochemically-generated carbon-centered radicals.
OSTI ID:
254772
Report Number(s):
CONF-940813--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English