Ionizing radiation, oxygen species formation

In carbon tetrachloride poly(a-methylstyrene) were degraded, even without oxygen, by the irradiation of ionizing radiation [58], The decay of the charge transfer radical complex, observed in this solvent, may be due to the reaction of a chlorine atom with p-site H of poly(a-methylstyrene) the reaction leads to the formation of P-position radicals of poly(a-methylstyrene). The produced polymer radicals were unstable and dissociated into neutral and radical species. 

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