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Decomposition of tert-butyl hydroperoxide in acetonitrile catalyzed by antimony pentachloride

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  1. 1.

    Di-tert-butyl peroxide, isobutylene, acetone, and methanol are formed in the SbCl5-catalyzed decomposition of tert-butyl hydroperoxide in acetonitrile solution.

  2. 2.

    The decomposition takes place both heterolytically and homolytically. The contribution from homolysis is 1–5% of the total decomposition. The dependence of the rates of total decomposition and of homolysis on the concentrations of SbCl5 and tert-butyl hydroperoxide and the activation energies of these processes have been determined.

  3. 3.

    The mechanism of the decomposition of tert-butyl peroxide in acetonitrile catalyzed by strong Lewis and Brönsted acids is discussed.

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  1. Branch of the Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Chernogolovka

    L. V. Petrov & V. M. Solyanikov

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1535–1541, July, 1980.

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Petrov, L.V., Solyanikov, V.M. Decomposition of tert-butyl hydroperoxide in acetonitrile catalyzed by antimony pentachloride. Russ Chem Bull 29, 1081–1086 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00949158

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