Abstract
AbstractThe mercury photosensitized decomposition of methyl ethyl ether has been studied at 55 °C and at pressures between 0.25 and 10 Torr in a static system. Some twenty products are observed at moderate conversions of which the most abundant are hydrogen and 2,3‐dimethoxyl butane. The distribution of products studied as a function of irradiation time and ether pressure is consistent with a primary process which produces an alkoxyl alkyl radical through breaking of a carbon hydrogen bond. A possible competing primary process producing alkyl and alkoxyl radicals through breaking of a carbon‐oxygen bond occurs with no more and probably considerably less than ten percent probability in this pressure range.
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