Spin-traps

The thiazolyl radical has never been directly observed. Torsell (284), however, could indirectly prove its existence by the method of spin trapping in the photolysis of 2-iodothiazole ... 

The nature of the intermediates impHcated in the photooxidation of water with Ti02 has been identified in several reports using spin traps by the electron spin resonance (esr) technique under ambient conditions (53). No evidence for OH species, even at 4.2 K, was found (43), but the esr signal... 

Bis(isoxazoline) decomposes to a number of products depending on the substitution (77H(6)1599) On photolysis using NiS04, two major products were formed. ESR spin trapping demonstrated the intermediacy of imino and 2-isoxazolinyl radicals (77TL4619). 

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 ... 

Spin trapping (e.s.r) and C -labeling techniques were used to study the structure of the alkyloxy radicals produced and to show that these radicals isomerize to... 

It has been suggested that the amine radical cation (46) is not directly involved in initiating chains and that most polymerization is initiated by benzoyloxy radicals.179 However, Sato et a ." employed spin trapping (3.5.2.1) to demonstrate that the anilinomethyl radical (45) was formed from the radical cation (46) by loss of a proton and proposed that the radical 45 also initiates polymerization. Overall efficiencies for initiation by amine-peroxide redox... 

Various oligomers formed by Diels-Alder/ene reactions are observed.333 334 For S-MA11 polymerization Sato et ci//31 used spin trapping to identify the initialing species. On the other hand, in the case of S-AN copolymerization, Ihe... 

In spin trapping, radicals are trapped by reaction with a diamagnetic molecule to give a radical product.476 This feature (i.e. that the free spin is retained in the trapped product) distinguishes it from the other trapping methods. The technique involves EPR detection of the relatively stable radicals which result front the trapping of the more transient radicals. No product isolation or separation is required. The use of the technique in studies of polymerization is covered in reviews by Kamachi477 and Yamada ft a/.478... 

The two most commonly employed spin traps are 2-methyl-2-nitrosopropane... 

Chalfont ei a m were the first to apply the spin trapping technique in the study of radical polymerization. They studied radicals produced during S polymerization initiated by r-butoxy radicals with 108 as the radical trap. Since... 

There are several limitations on the use of the spin trapping technique when quantitative results are required. These are ... 

The application of RPR in the detection and quantification of species formed by spin-trapping the products of radical-monomer reactions is described in Section 3.5.2.1, The application of time-resolved F.PR spectroscopy to study intermolecular radical-alkene reactions in solution is mentioned in Section 3.5.1. 

Many nitrones and nitroso-compounds have been exploited as spin traps in elucidating radical reaction mechanisms by EPR spectroscopy (Section 3.5.2.1). The initial adducts are nitroxides which can trap further radicals (Scheme 5.17). 

Morkovnik et al. (1989) found experimentally that the addition of an equimolar amount of 4-morpholino- or 4-dimethylaminoaniline to a suspension of nitrosyl perchlorate in 100 % acetic acid, dioxan, or acetonitrile yields a mixture of the diazonium perchlorate and the perchlorate salt of the amine radical cation, with liberation of gaseous nitric oxide. Analogous results in benzene, including evidence for radicals by ESR spectroscopy and by spin trapping experiments, were obtained by Reszka et al. (1990). 

Samsonova and Nikiforov, 1984), and porphyrin and phthalocyanine metal complexes (Becker et al., 1985a, 1986b Becker and Grossmann, 1990) were tested. That a series of relatively simple anions such as the oxalate monoanion, tetraphenyl bor-anate (Ph4B ), bromide, chloride, and even tetrafluoroborate can act as donors is, at least for the last mentioned anion, surprising, but Becker et al. (1985 b) were able to trap aryl radicals and in some cases also donor radicals (Cl, COO ) by spin trapping with nitrosodurene and phenyl-tert-butylnitrone. The photochemical effect is postulated to be due to ion pairs ArNJ X-. 

In related work, the reactions of hydrogen peroxide with iron(II) complexes, including Feu(edta), were examined.3 Some experiments were carried out with added 5.5"-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide (DMPO) as a trapping reagent fa so-called spin trap) for HO. These experiments were done to learn whether HO was truly as free as it is when generated photochemically. The hydroxyl radical adduct was indeed detected. but for some (not all) iron complexes evidence was obtained for an additional oxidizing intermediate, presumably an oxo-iron complex. 

Spin trap, 102 Statistical kinetics, 76 Steady-state approximation, 77-82 Stiff differential equations, 114 Stoichiometric equations, 12 Stopped-flow method, 253-255 Substrate titration, 140 Success fraction approach, 79 Swain-Scott equation, 230-231... 

The reaction of OH radicals with dimethyl sulfoxide in aqueous solution was studied already in 1964 by Norman and coworkers37 38. They used the system T1m-H202 to produce OH radicals and using ESR/rapid mixing techniques they were able to demonstrate elimination of a methyl radical during the OH induced oxidation. Further studies showed the formation of sulfmic radicals in this reaction either directly or by spin trapping experiments39-44. 

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