The color centers and free radicals produced in irradiated solid alcohols, ketones, ethers, and other compounds have been examined experimentally by means of optical absorption and EPR spectroscopy to obtain information regarding the products of ionization and the associated electronic processes. At liquid nitrogen temperature these products of electron or x-ray bombardment are stable; however, the color centers are photosensitive and can be bleached both optically and thermally. The alcohols also show an increase in absorption near the characteristic uv bands. Removing the visible color centers increases the EPR hfs, but bleaching in the uv band markedly reduces or changes the hfs. In methanol and ethanol, free radicals are formed with good efficiency requiring about 18 and 12 ev per radical, respectively. Saturation concentrations of 2×1019 and 9×1019 spins per cc were produced in acetone and methanol, respectively. The hfs of ethanol and methanol indicate an alkyl hydrogen is missing from the radicals produced by irradiating these materials. No sign of the atomic hydrogen doublet was observed at liquid nitrogen temperature. Support for the α—β hypothesis was found in the hfs displayed by the irradiated alcohols, paraffins, ketones, and ethers.
The author commenced his paper by referring to the analysis of codeine made by different chemists. On these analyses four different formulæ had been founded; but two only, those of Regnault and of Gerhardt, required special mention, the others being now known certainly not to represent the constitution of the base. Regnault had deduced from his analysis the formula C35H20NO5, while Gerhardt gives C36H21NO6as the expression of his results.
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