Relative reactivities of aliphatic alcohols and amines towards aminyl radicals

Abstract

The relative reactivities for hydrogen abstraction by aminyl radicals from aliphatic alcohols and amines have been determined both by direct kinetic methods and by polarographic measurements. The reactivities increase with increasing chain length as occurs with hydroxyl radicals. A linear correlation exists between the logarithms of the aminyl and hydroxyl reactivities, which indicates the similarity of the mechanism and the relative sensitivity to structural changes for the two reactions.