Sa. Grabovsky et al., THE RATIO OF THE RATE CONSTANTS FOR H-ATOM ABSTRACTION AND BETA-CLEAVAGE FOR BIS-OXYISOPROPYLIDENE BIRADICAL, Russian chemical bulletin, 47(7), 1998, pp. 1284-1286
The relative reactivity of bis-oxyisopropylidene biradical (OCMe2O.)-O
-. generated upon homolysis of the O-O bond of dimethyidioxirane was c
haracterized by the ratio of the rate constants for PI atom abstractio
n and beta-cleavage: k(3)/k(2) = 0.23 +/- 0.06 L mol(-1) (314 K).