Isobutene, reaction with oxygen atoms

Sato and Cvetanovi6 (88) studied in some detail the photooxidation of 1-butene and isobutene at 3660 A. The 1-butene exhibited all the features of the olefin reactions with oxygen atoms produced by the N2O technique. The addition products, a-butene oxide, n-butyraldehyde, and... 

In investigating the reaction of oxygen atoms with isobutene, analysis for propene was carried along with that for carbonyl compounds and CO. Propene was separated from isobutene at —112° to about — 115°C., which was possible due to the sufficient difference in vapor pressures (Table III). Experimental results have shown that the amounts of for-... 

The values of the relative rates of reactions of oxygen atoms with olefins are listed in Table III, with the rate of the isobutene reaction taken arbitrarily as unity. The trend in the rates with olefin structure is most interesting and will be discussed in the next section. 

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