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Thermal decomposition reaction of 3,3,6,6-tetramethyl- 1,2,4,5-tetroxane in 2-methoxy- ethanol solution

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The thermal decomposition study of 3,3,6,6-tetramethyl-1,2,4,5-tetroxane (acetone cyclic diperoxide) was carried out in 2-methoxyethanol solution in the 130-166 °C temperature range. The overall reaction follows a first-order kinetic law up to at least 75% diperoxide conversion. The activation parameters (ΔH# = 22.5 ± 0.7 kcal⋅mol–1 and ΔS# = -25.6 ± 0.5 cal⋅mol–1⋅K–1) for the unimolecular rupture of the O–O bond in the diperoxide molecule were obtained by measuring the remnant diperoxide at different reaction times by the CG technique. Acetone was detected by GC as the major organic product of the reaction.

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  1. Laboratorio de Química Física, Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Avenida Libertad Nº 5460 (3400), Corrientes, Argentina

    L. A. C. Leiva

  2. Laboratorio LADECOR, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, UNLP (1900), calle 47 esq 115, La Plata, República Argentina

    J. M. Romero, N. L. Jorge & M. E. Gómez Vara

  3. INIFTA, Theoretical Chemistry Division, Suc. 4, C.C. 16, La Plata, 1900, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    L. F. R. Cafferata & E. A. Castro

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Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 12, pp. 1806-1811, December, 2009.

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Leiva, L.A.C., Romero, J.M., Jorge, N.L. et al. Thermal decomposition reaction of 3,3,6,6-tetramethyl- 1,2,4,5-tetroxane in 2-methoxy- ethanol solution. Chem Heterocycl Comp 45, 1455–1459 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10593-010-0449-6

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