Alkyl peroxide

Kinetics of thermal decomposition of dialkyl peroxides in solution as well as the gas phase have been reviewed by Molyneux and Frost and Pearson . The decomposition of dialkyl peroxides is moderately free from induced decomposition, compared to other types of peroxides. As seen from Table 65, the first-order rate coefficient increases by about 16 % when the initial peroxide concentration is increased about 5 fold at reasonably high peroxide concentrations. The increase in the rate coefficient is attributed to an induced decomposition where hydrogen atom abstraction generates the radical (I). Further reaction of (I) produces isobutylene oxide and the f-butoxy radical, viz. 

The remaining steps that are commonly associated with the non-induced decomposition portion of the reaction in a hydrogen atom donating solvent (R H) are given below, where R is an alkyl group. 

R3COOCR3 2R3CO-RjCO +R H - R3COH + R -RjCO- RCOR-t-R-R+R H RH-hR -2R - R R  

The decomposition of di-/-butyl and dicumyl peroxide in benzene, a poor hydrogen atom donor solvent, were studied in the presence of 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl piperidine JV-oxyl (II) over the temperature range of 95-125 The termination kinetics. 

THE EFFECT OF INITIAL CONCENTRATION ON THE RATE OF DECOMPOSITION OF DI-/-BUTYL PEROXIDE IN CUMENE AT I35.0 0.1 °C  

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Chemical Properties. Acychc di-Z f/-alkyl peroxides efftciendy generate alkoxy free radicals by thermal or photolytic homolysis. 

Because di-/ fZ-alkyl peroxides are less susceptible to radical-induced decompositions, they are safer and more efficient radical generators than primary or secondary dialkyl peroxides. They are the preferred dialkyl peroxides for generating free radicals for commercial appHcations. Without reactive substrates present, di-/ fZ-alkyl peroxides decompose to generate alcohols, ketones, hydrocarbons, and minor amounts of ethers, epoxides, and carbon monoxide. Photolysis of di-/ fZ-butyl peroxide generates / fZ-butoxy radicals at low temperatures (75), whereas thermolysis at high temperatures generates methyl radicals by P-scission (44). 

In the presence of base, di-Z f/-alkyl peroxides are stable, however primary and secondary diaLkyl peroxides undergo oxygen—oxygen bond cleavage, forming alcohols, aldehydes, and ketones (44,66) ... 

Primary and secondary dialkyl peroxides react much mote readily than di-/ fZ-alkyl peroxides (66,76). Products derived from the free radical are also produced in these reactions. 

Such copolymers of oxygen have been prepared from styrene, a-methylstyrene, indene, ketenes, butadiene, isoprene, l,l-diphen5iethylene, methyl methacrjiate, methyl acrylate, acrylonitrile, and vinyl chloride (44,66,109). 1,3-Dienes, such as butadiene, yield randomly distributed 1,2- and 1,4-copolymers. Oxygen pressure and olefin stmcture are important factors in these reactions for example, other products, eg, carbonyl compounds, epoxides, etc, can form at low oxygen pressures. Polymers possessing dialkyl peroxide moieties in the polymer backbone have also been prepared by base-catalyzed condensations of di(hydroxy-/ f2 -alkyl) peroxides with dibasic acid chlorides or bis(chloroformates) (110). 

Hydroxyalkyl Alkyl Peroxides and Hydroxyalkyl Peroxyesters. The same stmctural restrictions discussed for the hydroxyhydroperoxides apply for the hydroxyalkyl alkyl peroxides, and those that exist are derived from aldehydes and certain ketones having electron-withdrawing groups, eg, polyfluorinated a,P-unsaturated ketones (136). 

Table 6. Boiling Points of Some Hydroxyalkyl Alkyl Peroxides ...

Mesityl oxide and hydrogen peroxide react initially to form the cycHc hydroxyalkyl alkyl peroxide, a 1,2-dioxolane. Prolonged equiUbration results in formation of the cycHc di(alkylperoxyalkyl) peroxide, 3,3 -dioxybis(3,5,5-trimethyl-l,2-dioxolane) [4507-98-6] (122,138) ... 

In the presence of strong acid catalysts such as sulfuric acid, aUphatic (R CHO) aldehydes react with alkyl hydroperoxides, eg, tert-55ky hydroperoxides, to form hydroxyalkyl alkyl peroxides (1), where X = OH R, = hydrogen, alkyl and = tert — alkyl. 

Alkoxyall l All l Peroxides. / /f-Butyl tetrahydropyran-2-yl peroxide [28627 6-5] (1), where R = tert — butyl, X = OR", R = H, R and R" = 1, 4 butanediyl, has been isolated. This is one of many examples of alkoxyalkyl alkyl peroxides which may be prepared by reaction of hydroperoxides with vinyl ethers (139) ... 

Methoxy-l-methylethyl alkyl peroxides (1, X = OR , R = R = R" =, methyl R = decyl, undecyl, pentadecyl, 2-octyl) are Hquids that have been isolated using flash chromatography (131). Peroxyester derivatives (R = cyl) have also been prepared (131). 

Table 15 shows that peroxyester stabiUty decreases for the alkyl groups in the following order tert — butyl > tert — amyl > tert — octyl > tert — cumyl > 3 — hydroxy — 1,1 dimethylbutyl. The order of activity of the R group in peroxyesters is also observed in other alkyl peroxides. Peroxyesters derived from benzoic acids and non-abranched carboxyUc acids are more stable than those derived from mono-a-branched acids which are more stable than those derived from di-a-branched acids (19,21,168). The size of the a-branch also is important, since steric acceleration of homolysis occurs with increasing branch size (236). Suitably substituted peroxyesters show rate enhancements because of anchimeric assistance (168,213,237). 

Solvent dependence of k, for di-r-alkyl peroxides is small when compared to most other peroxide initiators.128 212 For di-/-butyl peroxide,128 d is slightly greater (up to two-fold at 125 °C) in protic (/-butanol, acetic acid) or dipolar aprotic solvents than in other media (cyclohexane, triethylamine, tetrahydrofuran). 

Molybdenum, tris(phenylenedithio)-structure, 1,63 Molybdenum alkoxides physical properties, 2,346 synthesis, 2,339 Molybdenum blue liquid-liquid extraction, 1,548 Molybdenum cofactor, 6,657 Molybdenum complexes acrylonitrile, 2,263 alkoxides, 3,1307 alkoxy carbonyl reactions, 2,355 alkyl, 3,1307 alkyl alkoxy reactions, 2,358 alkyl peroxides oxidation catalyses, 6,342 allyl, 3,1306... 

Vanadium complexes, 3,453-569 acetylacetone exchange reactions, 2,380 alkyl peroxides... 

Soedjak HS, A Butler (1990) Charactarization of vanadium bromoperoxidase from Macrocystis and Fucus reactivity of bromoperoxidase towards acyl and alkyl peroxides and bromination of amines. Biochemistry 29 7974-7981. 

Dioxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane naturally assumed the role of the principal target molecule. It represented a considerable synthetic challenge, for not only is it a strained bicyclic molecule containing the weak and labile 0—0 bond, but it is also a di(secondary-alkyl) peroxide which is the most difficult type to make by classical procedures 12). New synthetic methods of exceptional mildness were clearly needed to solve this problem. In the course of the development of such techniques and from a desire to establish their scope, a variety of saturated bicyclic peroxides have been obtained in addition to 2,3-dioxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane. The question of how substitution patterns and ring sizes affect the reactivity of bicyclic peroxides has further served to broaden interest in the subject. 

The well established chemistry of acyclic secondary-alkyl peroxides 12> suggested that bases should catalyse the isomerization of related bicyclic peroxides to cyclic hydroxyketones 62 via abstraction of bridgehead hydrogen and heterolysis of the peroxide bond (Eq. 48). 

Studies on the biosynthesis of prostaglandins revealed that a strained bicyclic bis(secondary-alkyl) peroxide was not only a key intermediate, but could survive the biological conditions long enough to be isolated, albeit in minute amounts. This was a startling discovery in that no simple bicyclic peroxides of the same type were known, clearly for reasons of preparative difficulty. The prostaglandin connection focused attention upon this missing class of peroxides and stimulated... 

Maeda H, Katsuki T, Akaike T and Yasutake R. 1992. High correlation between lipid peroxide radical and tumor-promoter effect—suppression of tumor promotion in the Epstein-Barr-virus lymphocyte-B system and scavenging of alkyl peroxide radicals by various vegetable extracts. Jpn J Cancer Res 83(9) 923-928. 

The experimental data on the reactions of ketyl radicals with hydrogen and benzoyl peroxides were analyzed within the framework of IPM [68]. The elementary step was treated as a reaction with the dissociation of the O—H bond of the ketyl radical and formation of the same bond in acid (from acyl peroxide), alcohol (from alkyl peroxide), and water (from hydrogen peroxide). The hydroperoxyl radical also possesses the reducing activity and reacts with hydrogen peroxide by the reaction... 

As shown in Scheme 4-6, the reaction proceeds via a Ti(IV) mixed-ligand complex A bearing allyl alkoxide and TBHP anions as ligands. The alkyl peroxide is electrophilically activated by bidentate coordination to the Ti(IV) center. Oxygen transfer to the olefinic bond occurs to provide the complex B, in which Ti(IV) is coordinated by epoxy alkoxide and r-butoxide. In complex B,... 

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