“…Therefore, the solutes are indirectly affected as they scavenge the primary species issued from the solvent and this specificity offers indeed the We recently revisited the radiolysis of methanol (Mostafavi et al, 2002). On the basis of previous scavenger studies by pulse and steady-state radiolysis (Jha et al, 1972;Wardman, 1973, 1975;Hentz and Kenney-Wallace, 1974;Hunt et al, 1975;Getoff et al, 1992Getoff et al, , 1993Ferradini and Jay-Gerin, 1996) and of the effects that we observed in the presence of silver ions or charged clusters, which scavenge both solvated electrons and d CH 2 OH/CH 3 O d radicals, we were able to complete the general scheme of the methanol radiolytic mechanism, with the yields of the various embranchments (Mostafavi et al, 2002).…”