Abstract
Potassium and zinc butylxanthates undergo one-electron transfer upon reaction with benzoquinones to give semiquinone radicals. The thiyl radical arising as a result of electron abstraction from the butylxanthate anion may add to the aromatic ring of the semiquinone radical.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 699–701, March, 1990.
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Rakhimov, R.R., Solozhenkin, P.M., Pupkov, V.S. et al. Free radicals formed upon the reaction of substituted benzoquinones with potassium and zinc butylxanthates. Russ Chem Bull 39, 619–621 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00959599
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