Chemical Bond Energies of Organic Peroxides: From CH3OOCH3 to High-Molecular-Weight Industrially Significant Compounds
Judith Würmel,
John M. Simmie
Abstract:Peroxides are of some importance in a number of industrial areas, as well as in atmospheric and low-temperature combustion chemistries. Although there are some organic peroxides that are powerful explosives, such as hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, their principal use is as initiators in polymerization reactions in the plastics and rubber industries since the O−O bond is easily cleaved to generate two reactive free radicals. This gives rise to concern about safety issues in both the manufacture of and the de… Show more
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