RADIATION CHEMISTRY OF CYCLOHEXANE: II. DOSE RATE EFFECTS ON THE FORMATION AND DESTRUCTION OF CYCLOHEXENE
- 1 June 1960
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Chemistry
- Vol. 38 (6) , 851-857
- https://doi.org/10.1139/v60-122
Abstract
Prolonged radiolysis of cyclohexane leads to a steady-state concentration of cyclohexene where G(cyclohexene) = 0. At concentrations greater than this steady concentration, cyclohexene is destroyed. It is shown that this steady-state concentration is a function of dose rate, varying approximately as the fourth root of the radiation intensity. A discussion of these and other observations indicates that dose rate and L.E.T. effects are observed in cyclohexane only if radical scavengers are present and that cyclohexene, a product of radiolysis, acts as a radical scavenger in irradiated cyclohexane.Keywords
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