Concentration primary radiolytic species

There are many excellent books and reviews on the structure and reactions of secondary radical ions generated in radiolytic and photolytic reactions. Common topics include the means and kinetics of radical ion production, techniques for matrix stabilization, electronic and atomic structure, ion-molecule reactions, structural rearrangements, etc. On the other hand, the studies of primary radical ions, viz. solvent radical ions, have not been reviewed in a systematic fashion. In this chapter, we attempt to close this gap. To this end, we will concentrate on a few better-characterized systems. (There have been many scattered pulse radiolysis studies of organic solvents most of these studies are inconclusive as to the nature of the primary species.)... 

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