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• 98-54-4 para-tert-butylphenol 
• 137475-52-6 perfluorobutylperoxyl radical 
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• 28528-33-8 4-t-butylphenolate anion 

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• 5787-50-8 sodium 4-tert-butylphenolate 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Direct Irradiation of Phenol and Para-Substituted Phenols with a Laser Pulse (266 nm) in Homogeneous and Micro-heterogeneous Media. A Time-Resolved Spectroscopy Study

Direct irradiation of para-substituted phenols under N2 atmosphere in homogeneous (cyclohexane, acetonitrile, and methanol) and micellar (SDS) solution was investigated by means of time-resolved spectroscopy. After a laser pulse (266 nm), two transient species were formed, viz. the para-substituted phenol radical-cations and the corresponding phenoxy radicals. The radical-cations showed a broad absorption band located between 390 and 460 nm, while the phenoxy radicals showed two characteristic bands centered at 320 nm and 400-410 nm. The deprotonation rate constant of radical-cations (kH) of 105 s-1 and the reaction rate constant of the phenoxy radicals (kR) in the order of 109-1010 M-1·s-1 have been derived. The kH rate constants gave good linear Hammett correlation with positive slope indicating that electron-withdrawing substituents enhance the radical-cation acidity. The binding constants (Kb) of the para-substituted phenols with the surfactant were also measured, and NOESY experiments showed that phenols were located in the hydrophobic core of the micelle. Finally, computational calculations provided the predicted absorption spectra of the transients and nice linear correlations were obtained between the theoretical and experimental energy of the lower absorption band of these species.

Phenolic hydrogen abstraction by the triplet excited state of thiochromanone: A laser flash photolysis study

Triplet ketones are known to oxidize biological substrates which can lead to damage of several biomolecules such as amino acids, nucleosides and DNA. As part of our systematic study on the interaction between carbonyl compounds and phenols, the triplet reactivity of thiochromanone (1) towards substituted phenols, in acetonitrile, was investigated employing the laser fash photolysis technique. The quenching rate constants ranged from (1.1 ± 0.1) × 108 L mol-1 s-1 (4-cyanophenol) to (5.8 ± 1.0) × 109 L mol-1 s-1 (hydroquinone). A Hammett plot for the reaction of triplet 1 with phenols containing polar substituents resulted in a reaction constant ρ =-0.90. This negative value observed for the reaction constant ρ is in accord with a mechanism in which the hydrogen transfer from phenols to the triplet carbonyl involves a coupled electron/proton transfer.

Abnormal solvent effects on hydrogen atom abstractions. 1. The reactions of phenols with 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (dpph?) in alcohols

Rate constants, kArOH/dpph?,s, for hydrogen atom abstraction from 13 hindered and nonhindered phenols by the diphenylpicrylhydrazyl radical, dpph?, have been determined in n-heptane and a number of alcoholic and nonalcoholic, hydrogen-bond accepting solvents. Abnormally enhanced values of kArOH/dpph?,s have been observed in alcohols. It is proposed that this is due to partial ionization of the phenols and a very fast electron transfer from phenoxide anion to dpph?. The popular assessment of the antioxidant activities of phenols with dpph? in alcohol solvents will generally lead to an overestimation of their activities.

Kinetic solvent effects on hydrogen-atom abstractions: Reliable, quantitative predictions via a single empirical equation

The rate of hydrogen-atom abstraction from XH by a radical, Y·, can be solvent-dependent. In many cases, the kinetic solvent effect (KSE) is directly related to hydrogen-bonding interactions between XH and the solvent. The relative hydrogen-bond acceptor (HBA) properties of solvents are given by β2/H constants of Abraham et al. (Abraham, M. H.; Grellier, P. L.; Prior, D. V.; Morris, J. J.; Taylor, P. J. J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2 1990, 521-529). Room-temperature rate constants for hydrogen-atom abstraction, kXH/Y·/S, have been determined in a number of solvents, S, where XH refers to several substituted phenols, tert-butyl hydroperoxide or aniline and Y· is a tert-alkoxyl radical. In all cases, plots of log(kXH/Y·/S/M-1 s-1) versus β2/H gave excellent linear correlations, the slopes of which, MXH, were found to be proportional to the hydrogen-bond-donating (HBD)ability of XH, as scaled with α2/H parameters of Abraham et al. (Abraham, M. H.; Grellier, P. L.; Prior, D. V.; Duce, P. P.; Morris, J. L.; Taylor, P. J. J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2 1989, 699-711), with MXH = - 8.3α2/H. This leads to a general empirical equation which quantifies KSEs at room temperature: log kXH/Y·/S = log kXH/Y·O - 8.3α2/Hβ2/H, where kXH/Y·/O refers to the rate constant in a non-HBA solvent for which β2/H = 0, generally a saturated hydrocarbon. Since MXH depends only on XH, rate constants for hydrogen-atom abstraction from XH by any Y· can be accurately predicted in any of the several hundred solvents for which β2/H is known on the basis of one single measured rate constant, provided α2/H for XH is known or measured. HBA solvents can have profound effects on some of the reactions and thermodynamic properties of hydroxylic substrates including: (i) reaction product profiles (ii) antioxidant activities, (iii) Hammett-type correlations, and (iv) O-H bond dissociation enthalpies. Finally, literature data (Nielsen, M. F.; Hammerich, O. Acta Chem. Scand, 1992, 46, 883-896) on KSEs for two proton-transfer reactions are shown to be correlated by the same equation which correlates KSEs for hydrogen-atom transfers.

Reactivity of substituted phenols toward alkyl radicals

The rate constants for the reaction of primary alkyl radicals with substituted phenolic compounds have been measured in benzene or toluene at room temperature by using the radical clock technique. With three representative phenols, containing in the ortho positions substituents of different size, the kinetics of the hydrogen transfer to alkyl radicals was studied at different temperatures to obtain the corresponding Arrhenius parameters. The kinetic solvent effect on the reaction with α-tocopherol was also investigated in six different solvents behaving as hydrogen bond acceptors, while the reaction with 2,4,6-trimethylphenol and 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol was studied in toluene and γ-valerolactone. For some phenols, the effect of self-aggregation on the kinetic parameters was also studied.

Iodine Atoms and Iodomethane Radical Cations: Their Formation in the Pulse Radiolysis of Iodomethane in Organic Solvents, Their Complexes, and Their Reactivity with Organic Reductants

Pulse radiolysis of iodomethane in various organic solvents leads to formation of iodine atoms or iodomethane radical cations, which in turn form complexes with iodomethane or with the solvent.Radiolysis in cyclohexane gives CH3I*I, which exhibits an absorption peak at 390 nm, whereas radiolysis in benzene forms the solvent complex, C6H6*I, which exhibits an intense broad absorption centered at 490 nm.Radiolysis of iodomethane in acetone, benzonitrile, and halogenated hydrocarbons results in formation of the radical cation CH3I.+.In the former two solvents, this species forms a complex with another molecule of iodomethane to give (CH3))2+, which absorbs at 420 nm, in agreement with previous results in aqueous solutions, but in halogenated hydrocarbons it forms complexes with the solvents, absorbing at 320-360 nm, i.e. near the absorption of monomeric CH3I.+ in water.Complexes of I atoms oxidize phenol and triphenylamine relatively slowly whereas complexes of CH3I.+ react more rapidly.The reactivity of the CH3I.+*RX complexes increases in the order of RX = CH2Cl2, CHCl3, CH2Br2, CCl4, CH3I, and for each complex the reactivity with phenol increases with increase in electron donating power of substituents.Replacing the methyl group of iodomethane radical cation with ethyl or isopropyl decreases the reactivity, whereas trifluoromethyl increases the reactivity.These oxidation reactions proceed via an intermediate complex between the iodine species and the organic reductant.

Perfluorobutylperoxyl Radical as an Oxidant in Various Solvents

Perfluorobutylperoxyl radicals were produced by pulse radiolysis of aerated solutions of perfluorobutyl iodide.The rate constants for reaction of this radical with several organic reductants, chlorpromazine, trolox, hydroquinone, and several other phenols, were determined in various solvents and were found to be in the range of 105 -109 M-1 s-1.By comparison with other haloalkylperoxyl radicals, C4F9OO. was found to be a much more powerful oxidant, whose reactions took place more rapidly and were less sensitive to solvent and substituent effects.The rate constants (k) for oxidation of a series of para-substituted phenols by C4F9OO. gave a good linear correlation between log k and the electrophilic substituent constant ?+, with a slope of ρ+ = -2.3, indicating formation of a positively charged transition state.Parallel experiments with CCl3OO. were limited to the most reactive phenols and gave a higher slope, ρ+ = -3.3.The rates of reaction of C4F9OO. with trolox and chlorpromazine were found to depend on solvent viscosity, but much less on solvent polarity and acid-base properties, probably because they were closer to the diffusion-controlled limit.The longer chain C10F21OO. was somewhat less reactive than C4F9OO. because of geometric factors.

Reaction of tert-Butoxy Radicals with Phenols. Comparison with the Reactions of Carbonyl Triplets

Tert-butoxy radicals generated in the photodecomposition of di-tert-butyl peroxide react efficiently with phenols to yield the corresponding phenoxy radicals.Typical rate constants in benzene at 22 deg C are 3.3x108 and 1.6x109 Msup