The H-atom donating activities of 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (BHT), 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methoxyphenol (DBHA), 2,2,5,7,8-pentamethyl-6-hydroxychroman (PMHC), and 3,5-di-tert-butylcatechol (DTBC) toward the nitrogen-centered 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical were measured by stopped flow methods in hexane, 1-propanol, tert-butyl alcohol, and acetone. Decreases in these activities on transferring from hexane to the hydrogen bond accepting (HBA) solvents, the kinetic solvent effect (KSE), are attributed to hydrogen bonding from the phenolic group. Steric hindrance accounts for a lower decrease observed for the highly hindered BHT and DBHA compared to PMHC. The catechol, DTBC, a very active H-atom donor to DPPH in hexane, showed a dramatic loss of activity in HBA solvents, especially acetone. Higher H-atom donating activities of BHT, DBHA, and PMHC were observed toward the oxygen-centered radical of 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-(4‘-methoxyphenyl)phenoxyl (DBMP), and the decreases in activity in the HBA solvents paralleled those found with DPPH. Thus the KSE was found to be independent of the nature of the abstracting radical for DPPH and DBMP. The inhibition of the oxygen uptake (IOU) method was used to determine the antioxidant activities (k inh) of α-tocopherol, PMHC, catechol, and DTBC during free radical autoxidation of styrene and mixtures of styrene and tert-butyl alcohol. The k inh of α-tocopherol and PMHC dropped to one-tenth of the values with increasing tert-butyl alcohol content due to the HBA activity of the alcohol compared to styrene.
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