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Free radical initiators–chemical molecules which easily decompose into free radicals–serve as reactive intermediates in synthetic methodologies such as organic and polymer synthesis as well as in technological processes, oligomerization, network formation, and kinetic research. The Handbook of Free Radical Initiators presents an up-to-date account of the physicochemical data on radical initiators and reactions of radical generation. Individual chapters include: Dialkyl Peroxides and HydroperoxidesDiacyl Peroxides, Peresters, and Organic PolyoxidesAzo-CompoundsBimolecular Reactions of Free Radical Generation by Ozone, Dioxygen, Hydroperoxides, and Haloid MoleculesFree Radical Abstraction ReactionsFree Radical Addition ReactionsFree Radical Recombination and Disproportoination ReactionsProfessionals and academic researchers in chemical engineering, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, plastics, and rubbers will find the Handbook of Free Radical Initiators to be a distinguished, vital resource.

The past 25 years in chemical kinetics have seen major advances in studyiqg the mechanisms of complex chemical re­ actions, in particular free radical reactions. Many differ­ ent methods have been developed for quantitative studies of elementary chemical reactions. Thousands of rate constants have been measured, for hundreds of diverse chemical reac­ tions. It is becoming more and more difficult for the chemist to orient himself in the voluminous and rapidly growing liter­ ature of chemical reaction kinetics. This leads to major expenditures of time in searching out, collecting. and eval­ uating quantitative kinetic data; to unnecessary repetition (duplication) of research; and to a situation in which the rich material already accumulated in the field of chemical kinetics is very often not fully utilized in comparing, interpreting, and analyzing new experimental data. There is a pressing need for the creation of a series of handbooks on reaction rate constants. Such work was begun several years ago at the initiative of V. N. Kondrat'ev, and is now going forward under his direction at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. This book is devoted to liquid-phase, homolytic reactions. Part One contains data on monomolecular reactions in which molecules decompose to form radicals, as well as data on bi­ molecular and trimolecular reactions that form free radicals.