Author:
Stadlbauer John M.,Venkateswaran Krishnan,Walker David C.
Abstract
This paper presents data showing that in dilute aqueous solutions of butanone, 3-pentanone, cyclohexanone, di-tert-butyl ketone, and acetaldehyde the addition reaction of muonium atoms occurs with a rate constant close to 1 × 108 M−1 s−1. The same value was obtained previously for acetone. Thus the reaction rate is virtually independent of the group attached to the C=O, be it a methyl, methylene, tert-butyl, or even a hydrogen atom. This is in sharp contrast to the reactivity of ordinary 1H atoms, whose rate constants are much slower and dependent on adjacent groups. In fact muonium and 1H react by different mechanisms, to form different products, so their rate ratio represents a complex kinetic isotope effect. Keywords: kinetic isotope effects, muonium atoms, muon spin rotation, ketones, hydrogen atom reactions.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Organic Chemistry,General Chemistry,Catalysis
Cited by
2 articles.
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