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Nitroso Formaldehyde

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IN recent papers by McGrath and McGarvey1,2 a new spectrum was reported and the carrier identified as the methoxyl radical. This spectrum, consisting of diffuse bands at 2064 Å, 2036 Å and 1999 Å, was obtained from the flash photolysis of methyl nitrite. Under presumably adiabatic conditions McGrath and McGarvey found that the spectrum appeared at short delay and the intensity increased to a maximum within 2.5 msec.

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NAPIER, I., NORRISH, R. Nitroso Formaldehyde. Nature 208, 1090–1091 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2081090a0

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