Ai. Aleksandrov et al., THE MECHANISM OF FORMATION OF FREE-RADICAL STATES UPON THE PULSED ACTION OF ELASTIC-WAVES ON SOLID MIXTURES OF DONOR-ACCEPTOR COMPOUNDS, Russian chemical bulletin, 45(5), 1996, pp. 1132-1136
The action of a pulse of elastic waves on polycrystalline mixtures of
donors and accepters (for example, 3,6-di-tert-butylcatechol and 3,6-d
i-tert-butyl-1,2-benzoquinone with the addition of sulfur and polystyr
ene) results in the formation of monoradicals and radical pairs. The s
tudy of the products by ESR spectroscopy and X-ray analysis shows that
the solid powder is dispersed to submicroscopic particles, including
those of the mixed composition.