ESR study

Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy. Several ESR studies have been reported for adsorption systems [85-90]. ESR signals are strong enough to allow the detection of quite small amounts of unpaired electrons, and the shape of the signal can, in the case of adsorbed transition metal ions, give an indication of the geometry of the adsorption site. Ref. 91 provides a contemporary example of the use of ESR and of electron spin echo modulation (ESEM) to locate the environment of Cu(II) relative to in a microporous aluminophosphate molecular sieve. 

The polarographic half-wave reduction potential of 4-nitroisothiazole is -0.45 V (pH 7, vs. saturated calomel electrode). This potential is related to the electron affinity of the molecule and it provides a measure of the energy of the LUMO. Pulse radiolysis and ESR studies have been carried out on the radical anions arising from one-electron reduction of 4-nitroisothiazole and other nitro-heterocycles (76MI41704). 

An ESR study for the K-doped CNTs with a doping level of 1-2% has been reported [35]. The comparison of spin susceptibilities x., between pristine and K-intercalated CNTs is shown in Fig. 7. A significant increase of the susceptibility... 

C-Methylation products, o-nitrotoluene and p-nitrotoluene, were obtained when nitrobenzene was treated with dimethylsulfoxonium methylide (I)." The ratio for the ortho and para-methylation products was about 10-15 1 for the aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction. The reaction appeared to proceed via the single-electron transfer (SET) mechanism according to ESR studies. 

From ESR studies the formation of free radicals on the a-C atom of the amines attached to hydroxyalky group as ... 

ESR studies on the initial free radicals were carried out by using MNP(2-methyl-2-nitrosopropane) or DMPO (5,5-dimethylpyrroline N-oxide) as the spin-trapping agent. The reactions are shown as ... 

The spin adducts of free radicals and MNP or DMPO were observed by means of an ESR spectrometer. The data of hyperfine splitting constants were compiled in Tables 9 and 10 [40-42,44,45]. ESR studies on the initial free radicals revealed that the monoalkylamino radical RHN-, dialkylamino radical R2N-, and aminomethyl radical -CH2N< or aminoethylidene radical >N( CHCH3) were obtained from the corresponding primary, secondary, and cyclic tertiary amine. In case of a tertiary diamine such as TMEDA, formation of... 

Photopolymerization of MMA was also carried out in the presence of visible light (440 nm) using /3-PCPY as the photoinitiator at 30°C [20]. The initiator and monomer exponent values were calculated as 0.5 and 1.0, respectively, showing ideal kinetics. An average value of kp /kt was 4.07 x 10 L-mol -s . Kinetic data and ESR studies indicated that the overall polymerization takes place by a radical mechanism via triplet carbene formation, which acts as the sources of the initiating radical. 

Although the initial radical formed from the reaction of Ce(rV) ion and acetylanilide (AA) and N-p-tolylacet-amide (PTA) has never been observed in the ESR studies, the presence of AA, PTA moieties in the end group of PAN obtained from initiating the CAN-AA, CAN-PTA system have been detected by the FT-IR spectra analysis method. Similar results were observed in the end group analysis of CAN-phenylcarbamate, CAN-N-acyl-N -tolylurea initiation systems. 

Based on the ESR studies and the end group analysis, the initiation mechanism of Ce(IV) ion redox systems is proposed as ... 

Based on the ESR studies of Ce(IV) ion-BzyAcAc-MNP, Ce(IV) ion BzAc-MNP systems as mentioned before, the grafting reaction of P(St-CH2-AcAc) will take place on the methene carbon of 1,3-dikeone via the abstraction of hydrogen by the Ce(I V) ion to form radicals and then initiate monomer graft copolymerization. The initiation mechanism of graft copolymerization is proposed in Scheme (10). 

MMA and DMAPMA poly(MMA-co-DMAPMA) 23, obtained by radical copolymerization, can produce a photografting reaction with acrylonitrile (AN) using BP as the initiator [61]. The formation of a graft copolymer, poly[(MMA -c<7-DMAPMA)- -AN] was confirmed by FT-IR spectrophotometry. Based on ESR studies and end group analysis, the mechanism of grafting reaction is proposed as follows ... 

Sohma, J. and Sakaguchi, M. ESR Studies on Polymer Radicals Produced by Mechanical Destruction and Their Reactivity. Vol. 20, pp. 109 — 158. 

The same conclusions apply to results obtained with supported MoOs catalysts (97b-97e). From ESR studies it was concluded that during the formation of the active catalyst the Mo03 is reduced (97c, 97e). 

Recently Boguslavskaya et al (Ref 49), on the basis of ESR studies, have suggested that thermal decompn of PA proceeds via the following free radical intermediates ... 

Rao and Symons49 studied the formation of radicals in y-radiolysis of dilute solutions of dimethyl sulfoxide in fluorotrichloromethane. By ESR studies they found the radical cation (CH3)2SOt whose ESR spectrum show considerable g anisotropy and small methyl proton hyperfine coupling. 

Benson17 has tried to collect some thermodynamic data based on a number of empirical rules for this class of radicals. He estimated heats of formation for HS02, MeSO 2) PhSO 2 and HOSO 2 as —42, —55, —37 and — 98kcalmor respectively. He also estimated a stabilization energy for the benzenesulfonyl radical of 14 kcal mol"1, which is very similar to that of the benzyl radical. However, recent kinetic studies18 (vide infra) have shown that arenesulfonyls are not appreciably stabilized relative to alkanesulfonyl radicals, in accord with the ESR studies. 

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