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FEW investigations of the radiolysis of nitroalkanes have been reported1 and, apart from the use of tetranitro-methane as a scavenger in aqueous solutions2, no systematic study of their radiation chemistry has been made. The liquids are highly polar and ionic reactions might be expected to play a significant part in the decomposition processes. In order to obtain information on this problem we have examined the radiation chemistry of nitromethane, nitroethane, 1- and 2-nitropropanes, the first in considerable detail. Some of the salient features of this investigation are reported here.
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CUNDALL, R., LOCKE, A. & STREET, G. Radiolysis of Nitroalkanes. Nature 210, 1354–1355 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2101354b0
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