title: Radical heterolysis reactions. Dynamics of formation, collapse, and solvation of ion pairs determined by a competition kinetic method.
abstract: The kinetics of radical heterolysis reactions, including rate constants for radical cation-anion contact ion pair formation, collapse of the contact pair back to the parent radical, and separation of the contact pair to a solvent-separated ion pair or free ions were obtained in several solvents for a beta-mesyloxy radical. Rate constants were determined from indirect kinetic studies using thiophenol as both a radical trapping agent via H-atom transfer and an alkene radical cation trapping agent via electron transfer. [reaction: see text].
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor St., Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA.
authors.forename: John H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Horner
authors.forename: Mukul
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lal
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Newcomb