Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Barry, Justin T
• Berg, Daniel J
• Tyler, David R

Titel

Radical Cage Effects: Comparison of Solvent Bulk Viscosity and Microviscosity in Predicting the Recombination Efficiencies of Radical Cage Pairs

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016-08, Vol.138 (30), p.9389-9392

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study reports the results of experiments that probed how solvents affect the recombination efficiency (F cP) of geminate radical cage pairs. The macroviscosity of solvents has traditionally been used to make quantitative predictions about F cP, but experiments reported here show that F cP varies dramatically for solvent systems with identical macroviscosities. Experiments show that F cP correlates with the solvent microviscosity: five different solvent systems (consisting of a solvent and a structurally similar viscogen) were examined, and F cP was the same for all five solvent systems at any particular microviscosity. The translational diffusion coefficient of the radicals (measured by DOSY) in the solvent system was used to define the microviscosity of the solvent system.