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Energetics of Organic Free Radicals pp 22–58Cite as

Heats of Formation of Organic Free Radicals by Kinetic Methods

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It has long been recognized that the key intermediates for the majority of the reactions of organic molecules in the gas phase, and frequently in the liquid phase as well, are free radicals. An important prerequisite for the description of the behavior of such systems is their thermodynamic properties. At first glance it may be surprising that thermodynamic properties should have any applicability to transient species that are present in trace quantities and disappear in short times. Indeed, if the kinetic properties of such systems are known, then thermodynamic properties are not really necessary and can in fact be derived from the kinetics. In reality, however, kinetic properties may be unavailable or difficult to measure. Thermodynamic properties serve as limits for kinetics and more generally as a basis for the estimation and evaluation of kinetic information [1]. More directly, through the equilibrium constant, rate constants for the reverse direction can be directly calculated from that in the forward direction. There are other physical situations where local thermodynamic equilibrium turns out to be a satisfactory approximation and kinetic information is not important.

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    José Arthur Martinho Simões

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Tsang, W. (1996). Heats of Formation of Organic Free Radicals by Kinetic Methods. In: Martinho Simões, J.A., Greenberg, A., Liebman, J.F. (eds) Energetics of Organic Free Radicals. Structure Energetics and Reactivity in Chemistry Series (SEARCH series), vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0099-8_2

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