Peroxide bonding

Problems still exist with AM 1, freatment of phosphorus-oxygen bonds is inaccurate, nitro compounds are still too positive in energy, and the peroxide bond, for example, is still too short. In many cases, l M3 is an improvement over AM 1,... 

It is virtually impossible to manufacture commercial polymers that do not contain traces of hydroperoxides. The peroxide bond is relatively weak and cleaves homolyticaHy to yield radicals (eqs. 2 and 3). Once oxidation has started, the concentration of hydroperoxides becomes appreciable. The decomposition of hydroperoxides becomes the main source of radical initiators. 

Transformation products of stabilizers formed during melt processing may exert either or both anti- and/ or pro-oxidant effects. For example, in the case of BHT, peroxydienones, PxD (reactions 9b, b") lead to pro-oxidant effects, due to the presence of the labile peroxide bonds, whereas quinonoid oxidation products, BQ, SQ, and G- (reaction 9 b, c, d) are antioxidants and are more effective than BHT as melt stabilizers for PP [29], The quinones are effective CB—A antioxidants and those which are stable in their oxidized and reduced forms (e.g., galvinoxyl, G-, and its reduced form, hydrogalvi-noxyl, HG) may deactivate both alkyl (CB—A mecha-... 

The formation of the complex is expected to decrease the free energy of activation for the homolysis of the peroxide bond, and the decomposition of TBHP would occur at a lower temperature. It was further observed that at a higher concentration of mineral acid, the decomposition of TBHP occurs via an ionic pathway, as reported by Turner [27]. 

Thus, the key reason for the paucity of methods available by analogy with epox-idation methods is the comparative inertness of N-O and N-N bonds relative to the peroxide bond. This means that the synthetic methods that have been developed for preparation of aziridines are distinct from those that have evolved for epoxide synthesis. 

Silver catalyses the explosive decomposition of hydrogen peroxide. The same goes for peroxomonosulphuric acid at 92%, which has a peroxidic bond. 

Steric and conformational factors are also important, especially in cyclic systems.233 There is a preference for the migration of the group that is antiperiplanar with respect to the peroxide bond. In relatively rigid systems, this effect can outweigh the normal preference for the migration of the more branched group.234... 

If the double bond could be reduced without severing the peroxide linkage, such endoperoxides. would serve as convenient precursors to the bicyelie peroxides 7. Unfortunately, the synthesis of dihydroascaridole 2a (Eq. 1) is exceptional, for catalytic hydrogenation of endoperoxides generally leads to cleavage of the peroxide bond with formation of the saturated c -l,4-diol. 

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). 

Various authors have studied the ageing of triterpenoid resins to understand and possibly slow their deterioration [3, 4, 12, 13, 17 36]. The main degradation pathway is autoxida-tion, an oxidative radical chain reaction [37, 38] after formation of radicals, oxygen from the air is inserted, leading to peroxides. The peroxides can be homolytically cleaved, resulting in new radicals that continue the chain reaction. The cleavage of peroxide bonds can be induced thermally or photochemically. 

Another reaction in which an oxygen cation is plausible as an intermediate is in the ozonization of olefins. Ozonides are now known to have many structures, but the molozonide precursor of the classical" or most common ozonide is believed to have a four-membered, cyclic structure. Criegee and the author have independently proposed a mechanism in which heterolytic fission of the cyclic peroxide bond leads to an intermediate that can rearrange either to the classical ozonide or to an "abnormal ozonide 816 328... 

The peroxide bond in the product is weak and readily cleaves to form additional radicals. Because more radicals are formed, any further reaction proceeds by a chain reaction, termed radical propagation, until all the petrol has been consumed. 

It can be seen that inside the octahedral coordination of the Ir(III) centre an unusual peroxide bond forms between the terminal oxygen atom (04) of coordinated dioxygen and the carbon atom (C7) of the semiquinone ligand. In fact, the 0-0 distance of the oxygen molecule (1.47 A) is within the typical bond distance of peroxide coordination (1.49 A). 

In both compounds the dioxygen coordination is side-on terminal and the 0-0 distance falls within the typical range of a peroxide bond coordinated to a single metal ion. In both cases the geometry can be viewed as either distorted trigonal-pyramidal or distorted octahedral, depending on whether one considers the oxygen molecule to occupy one or two positions. 

The positive charge on the proximal His 170 facilitates the formation of the iron-peroxide bond. Thus, inversion of the charge properties at the active site of HRP facilitates the heterolytic cleavage of the 0-0 bond. The positive charges on His 42 and Arg 38 and the negative charge on His 170 assist the formation of the Fe = 0 species. 

At increased temperatures, the peroxide bond is cleaved homolytically, giving radicals. Dibenzoyl peroxide is a diacyl peroxide and cleaves rather more readily than the dialkyl peroxide, but further decomposition then occurs in which carbon dioxide... 

Triphenylphosphine PhsP (M.W. 262.29, m.p. 79-81°, b.p. 377°) reacts spontaneously with all kinds of organic peroxides in ether, petroleum ether or benzene and extracts one atom of oxygen per peroxide bond [290]. It also extrudes sulfur and converts thiiranes to alkenes [291], and performs other reductions [292]. 

Despite the good performance characteristics of HMTD, it had several significant faults. As mentioned earlier, the peroxide bond is very reactive. This made HMTD incompatible with most metals. It actively attacked aluminum, tin, zinc, brass, copper, iron, and lead. HMTD was also very unstable when stored, exhibiting tremendous weight loss over short periods of time. In the end, it was judged both too reactive and too thermally unstable for any practical usage. It fell into obscurity in the explosives community in the early 1950s. 

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