The Presence of Free Radicals in the Thermal Decomposition of Diethyl Ether

Fletcher, C. J. M.; Rollefson, G. K.

doi:10.1021/ja01302a013

Cited by 11 publications

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“…Further evidence for the chain character of a number of decomposition reactions is furnished by the work of Staveley and Hinshelwood (188b,189,190) and others (39,55,126,194). They found that while large amounts of added nitric oxide would catalyze the reactions, small amounts caused some inhibition.…”

Section: Rimentioning

confidence: 93%

The Kinetics of Elementary Reactions of the Simple Hydrocarbons.

Steacie¹

1938

Chem. Rev.

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Section: Rimentioning

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The Kinetics of Elementary Reactions of the Simple Hydrocarbons.

Steacie¹

1938

Chem. Rev.

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“…less stable than its isomer CH3CHO and it decomposes thermally at temperatures about 100°C. lower than the latter; in fact EO can be used to sensitize the thermal decomposition of CH3CHO (22). The products in both cases are very similar, predominantly CH4 + CO.…”

Section: Prediction Of Productsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Predictability of Chain Reactions

Benson¹

1964

Ind. Eng. Chem.

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The characteristic of a chain reaction is that the sum of the chain (or propagation) steps yields the overall reaction stoichiometry-the chain carriers canceling out in the addition. The closed reaction sequence involving the intermediates in a pyrolytic reaction is shown above (see Equation E). Reactant is consumed and products produced, but the concentration of intermediates which propagate the reaction is controlled only by distinct initiation and termination steps. The number of over-all reactions between the initiation and termination steps is called the chain length.In this article, pyrolytic and metathetical chain reactions are discussed in terms of our recently acquired knowledge of prototypes of their component steps-initiation, transfer, propagation, and termination.Predictability of products and product ratios is shown to be fairly good using Rice-Hertzfeld mechanisms and known data for radical reactions. Some semiquantitative generalizations concerning radical step reactions lead to about order-of-magnitude ability to predict overall chain rates.

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“…Many investigations have been made using ethylene oxide as a sensitizer (58,79,80,81,121,287). The production of carbon monoxide has usually been used as an indication of the amount of decomposition of ethylene oxide, and hence of the number of methyl radicals generated in the system.…”

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confidence: 99%