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Postirradiation changes in the solutions of acetylacetone

R. Čech

Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Komenský University 9 801 00 Bratislava

Abstract:  On the irradiation of aqueous solutions of acetylacetone the reactions of acetylacetone with the products of the radiolysis of water take place and give carboxylic acids. The proposed mechanism assumes the formation of an unstable cyclic peroxide and its successive decomposition into carboxylic acids. In the irradiated methanolic solutions of acetylacetone such reactions do not take place because the products of the radiolysis of methanol do not form peroxide with acetylacetone.

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Chemical Papers 28 (1) 47–50 (1974)