Conclusions
The thermolysis rate of 1,4-benzoquinone diazides in aprotic media is independent of the polarity of the solvent, as well as of the electronic and steric effects of the substituents in the quinone diazide nucleus; in protic media, due to complexing with the solvent, the thermolysis rate of the quinone diazides is determined by the steric effects of the substituents and the polarity of the medium.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2628–2631, November, 1981.
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Samsonova, L.V., Nikiforov, G.A., de Jonge, C. et al. Effect of polarity of medium on thermal stability of 1,4-benzoquinone diazides. Russ Chem Bull 30, 2185–2188 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01094659
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