Carbon-Centered Radicals

The radiolysis of water produces short-lived primary radicals which react with aliphatic compounds such as alcohols, acids, amines, ethers, halogen compounds, amino acids, etc., to produce secondary radicals which undergo further reactions of addition, oxidation, reduction, abstraction, etc. Rate constants have been compiled for 2,500 reactions of 350 aliphatic carbon-centered radicals with various solutes. The radicals include:

• alkyl
  
• hydroxyalkyl
  
• haloalkyl
  
• alkoxyalkyl
  
• carboxyalkyl
  
• aminoalkyl
  
• benzyl and ketyl radicals
  
• other substituted alkyl radicals
  

To be published by:

P. Neta, J. Grodkowski and A.B. Ross
J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, in preparation.

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Work jointly supported by:

Office of Basic Energy Sciences
United States Department of Energy

Standard Reference Data
National Institute of Standards and Technology