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FARMER and Sundralingam in a recent paper1 have stressed the part that hydroperoxides play as the first isolatable intermediates in autoxidations: their investigation, anticipated by Criegee, showing that olefin peroxides have the structure -CH(OOH)-CH=CH-, brings these peroxides into line with Rieehe's alkyl peroxides, possessing the reactive group (- OOH). The work reported below on the uncatalysed and the heavy-metal catalyed oxidation of alkyl benzenes and long-chain saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons (C15 to C25) in the liquid phase at 100-120° C, also supports the hypothesis that hydroperoxides are primary oxidation intermediates.
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GEORGE, P., RIDEAL, E. & ROBERTSON, A. OXIDATION OF HYDROCARBONS AT LOW TEMPERATURES. Nature 149, 601–602 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149601a0
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