Generation and Chemistry of Cyclohexyloxy Radicals

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00350a078

In this paper we report our work on cyclohexyloxy radicals from dicyclohexyl hyponitrite (CyON2OCy) and the related CyO<*> sources dicyclohexyl peroxydicarbonate and dicyclohexyl peroxide (CyO2Cy), including the 13C and 1H NMR spectra of the radical sources, the kinetics of the DCHN decomposition over a wide range of temperature (followed by both UV and chemiluminescence), ESR spin-trapping studies, the kinetics of hydrogen atom abstraction from a variety of substrates by CyO<*>, and the effect of CyO<*> radical source on product composition.We have also investigated the effects of dissolved O2 on DCHN decomposition in cyclohexane and comment on the source of the observed chemiluminescence.