Stabilized free radicals

Some of the evidence indicating that alkyl substituents stabilize free radicals comes from bond energies The strength of a bond is measured by the energy required to break It A covalent bond can be broken m two ways In a homolytic cleavage a bond between two atoms is broken so that each of them retains one of the electrons m the bond... 

Inhibitors slow or stop polymerization by reacting with the initiator or the growing polymer chain. The free radical formed from an inhibitor must be sufficiently unreactive that it does not function as a chain-transfer agent and begin another growing chain. Benzoquinone is a typical free-radical chain inhibitor. The resonance-stabilized free radical usually dimerizes or disproportionates to produce inert products and end the chain process. 

Stabilized by hydrogen transfer. The stabilized free radicals undergo secondary cracking reactions as they come in contact with the hot coke. 

At first, these highly reactive free radicals react with the antioxidant, but as the antioxidant is consumed, the free radicals react with other compounds. Hydrogens on methylene groups between double bonds are particularly susceptible to abstraction to yield the resonance stabilized free radical ( ) ... 

At the same time, delocalization of unpaired spin in the free-radical product appears to be important for the course of the substitution reaction. For example hydrogen shift in sabinene radical cation 39a leads to a conjugated system (40 ) nucleophilic attack on l-aryl-2-alkylcyclopropane radical cations 43 or 47 produces benzylic radicals nucleophilic attack on 39a generates an allylic species and attack on the tricyclane radical cations 55 or 56 forms tertiary radicals. Apparently, formation of delocalized or otherwise stabilized free radicals is preferred. 

Concerning steric factors, 43 is attacked in the most hindered position ( inverse effect of substitution ) likewise, 39 is attacked at the most hindered carbon. Obviously, the transition states for the formation of 44 or 50 show limited sensitivity to the degree of substitution, and the relief of ring strain is a more significant factor than the steric hindrance in the transition state. On the other hand, steric factors are important in systems such as P-phellandrene radical cation 40 which is attacked at the xo-methylene carbon (most easily accessible), or the tricyclane radical cation 56 which is attacked at the less hindered 3° carbon further removed from the dimethyl-substituted bridge (approach a). Both reactions also benefit Irom the formation of the most highly substituted, hyperconjugatively stabilized free radicals. 

Studies of the direct effect have been largely confined to DNA samples in the solid state. This is done in order to maximize direct-type damage and minimize indirect-type damage. In addition, low temperatures are often employed both as a means of sequestering the DNA from the bulk water and as a means of stabilizing free radical intermediates. In frozen DNA samples, the mobility of holes and excess electrons differs for the different sample components ice, solvation shell, DNA backbone, and base stacks. We start with the ice phase. 

Mechanism II. Amines may be able to stabilize free radicals formed during the reaction between the fuel and oxygen. This could be done either by forming an adduct between a fuel radical, R , and the amine, followed by reaction to form stable products (28), or by direct hydrogen abstraction (25, 28, 29) to form a radical, T, from the inhibitor, which does not take any part in the fuel-oxygen chain reaction ... 

A previous paper described the inhibiting influence of aliphatic amines on the oxidation of ethyl ether in the gas phase (28). It was suggested that one of the principal methods by which amines can act as negative catalysts is by stabilizing free radicals in the gas phase. However, it is necessary to examine the action of amines on the intermediate products formed during oxidation processes. 

It is known that hydrophobic surroundings can stabilize free radicals lifetimes of up to an hour were measured for otherwise very reactive radicals. This may be of importance for the enzyme mechanism. 

The second class of ring-forming reactions is recombination of resonantly stabilized free radicals, with subsequent rearrangement and ring formation. The most important such steps are believed to be recombination of two propargyl radicals,... 

The increase in stability resulting from resonance or electron delocalization is important in the discussion of a great variety of chemical questions. A partial list of topics should stress this point. Properties of dyes, ultraviolet absorption, bond strengths, thermal stabilities, free radical reactions, heats of reaction, and rates of chemical reactions in general may be influenced by resonance stabilization in the chemical species involved. 

The scavenging approach is to add a substance that reacts very rapidly with radicals. Some typical scavengers are the stabilized free radicals such as gal-vinoxyl (3, p. 464), the Koelch radical (4, p. 464), and diphenylpicryl hydrazyl (33).102 These radicals will not undergo self-recombination, but nevertheless... 

Mollisol spectra which indicate presence of stabilized free radicals (semiquinones) and resemble those of natural HAs measurement of 02 uptake 1983a)... 

Lythgoe first observed that certain groups which form stabilized free radicals when substituted fl to the thionocarbonyl derivative of a hydroxyl moiety undergo smooth elimination upon treatment with trialkyltin radicals to give the olefin.155 This important observation charted a course for a series of... 

The variation in thermal decomposition yields, which depend on bed geometry, pressure, solvents, etc, are in agreement with the suggested role of internal aliphatic or hydroaromatic hydrogen in stabilizing free radicals in the competitive evolution of light species and tar. 

NBS provides low cone. Br2 for free-radical bromination. Abstraction of one of the CH2 hydrogens gives a resonance-stabilized free radical product PhCHBrCH3. 

The contribution of Ic is not considered likely the possible rotation about the carbon-carbon <7 bond would result in a non-stereospecific ozone addition on the olefin—in violation of Greenwood s observations (21,22) that a trans- (or cis-) olefin yields only trans- (or cis-) primary ozonide. Retention of configuration is also shown in those cases in which epoxide is formed (20). Finally, a recent communication by Bailey et al. (23) reports the formation of free radicals, arising from the homolytic dissociation of a w or a complex, in the ozonolysis of terminal olefins with bulky substituents capable of stabilizing free radicals. 

Considerable effort has been invested in attempts to explore the total replacement of CH groups by nitrogen in cyclopentadienide anions or benzene. The ability of aryl groups to stabilize free radicals, cations or anions is due to extension (conjugation) of re-orbitals. More than a century ago, it was observed that alkylbenzenes afford benzoic acid on oxidation and that the stability of arylazoles toward oxidants and acids increased with the number of N atoms, so that the oxidants attack the benzene ring in phenylpyrazole, and that benzotriazole survives refluxing with aqua regia. 

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