A radiolabelling study of radicals derived from benzene, toluene and benzaldehyde sorbed in model environmental carbon

Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2002 Apr;58(6):1209-17. doi: 10.1016/s1386-1425(01)00711-9.

Abstract

Radiolabelled free radicals were formed by the addition of muonium--a radioactive hydrogen atom with a positive muon as its nucleus--to benzene, toluene and benzaldehyde, as sorbed in porous carbon. The activation parameters associated with their reorientational motion were measured using longitudinal-field muon spin relaxation (LF-MuSRx). Two distinct sorbed fractions were detected in each sample, characterised by molecular reorientational activation energies of 5.9/25.8 kJ/mol for benzene, 2.5/5.9 kJ/mol for toluene and 2.9/11.5 kJ/mol for benzaldehyde.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Benzaldehydes / chemistry*
  • Benzene / chemistry*
  • Carbon / chemistry*
  • Chemical Phenomena
  • Chemistry, Physical
  • Temperature
  • Thermodynamics
  • Toluene / chemistry*

Substances

  • Benzaldehydes
  • Toluene
  • Carbon
  • Benzene
  • benzaldehyde