Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Formation of muonium substituted free radicals

  • Mounium Radical Formation and Chemical Reactions
  • Published:
Hyperfine Interactions Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

μSR experiments with mixtures of benzene with cyclohexane, 2,3-dimethyl-1,3-butadiene and carbontetrachloride allow the conclusion that the direct muonic precursor of the muonic cyclohexadienyl radical is thermal muonium. In neat benzene it has a life time of 10 ps and disappears by the addition reaction. Muonium is formed within about 1 ps by combination of the positive muon with an electron near the end of the track of the thermalizing muon.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. E. Roduner and H. Fischer, Chem. Phys.54 (1981) 261

    Google Scholar 

  2. J.H. Brewer, F.N. Gygax and D.G. Fleming, Phys. Rev.A8 (1973) 77; J.H. Brewer, K.M. Crowe, F.N. Gygax, R.F. Johnson, D.G. Fleming, and A. Schenck, Phys. Rev.A9 (1974) 495

    Google Scholar 

  3. P.W. Percival and J. Hochmann, Hyperfine Interactions6 (1979) 421

    Google Scholar 

  4. S.F.J. Cox, A. Hill, and R. deRenzi, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. I,78 (1982) 2975

    Google Scholar 

  5. P.W. Percival, Hyperfine Interactions8 (1981) 315

    Google Scholar 

  6. D.C. Walker, Hyperfine Interactions8 (1981) 329

    Google Scholar 

  7. E. Roduner, G.A. Brinkman and P.W.F. Louwrier, Chem. Phys.73 (1982) 117

    Google Scholar 

  8. E. Roduner, G.A. Brinkman, and P.W.F. Louwrier, Hyperfine Interactions17–19 (1984) 803

    Google Scholar 

  9. E. Roduner and B.C. Webster, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. I,79 (1983) 1939

    Google Scholar 

  10. E. Roduner, W. Strub, P. Burkhard. J. Hochmann, P.W. Percival, H. Fischer. M.J. Ramos, and B.C. Webster, Chem. Phys.67 (1982) 275

    Google Scholar 

  11. M. Anbar, Farhatazziz and A.B. Ross, in Selected Specific Rates of Reactions of Transients from Water in Aqueous Solution. II Hydrogen Atom (NSRDS, NBS-51, Washington, 1975)

  12. Y.C. Jean, J.H. Brewer, D.G. Fleming, D.M. Garner, R.J. Mikula, L.C. Vaz, and D.C. Walker, Chem. Phys. Letters57 (1978) 293

    Google Scholar 

  13. Y. Ito, B.W. Ng, Y.C. Jean, and D.C. Walker, Can. J. Chem.58 (1980) 2395

    Google Scholar 

  14. E. Roduner, Hyperfine Interactions17–19 (1984) 793

    Google Scholar 

  15. J.A. Kerr, and M.J. Parsonage, in Evaluated Kinetic Data on Gas Phase Addition Reactions (Butterworths, London, 1972)

    Google Scholar 

  16. J.W. Hunt, Adv. Radiat. Chem.5 (1976) 185

    Google Scholar 

  17. Y.C. Jean, B.W. Ng, J.H. Brewer, D.G. Fleming, and D.C. Walker, J. Phys. Chem.85 (1981) 451

    Google Scholar 

  18. J.M. Warman, K.D. Asmus, and R.H. Schuler, Adv. Chem. Series82 (1968) 25

    Google Scholar 

  19. E. Roduner, unpublished results

  20. G. Wikander and O.E. Mogensen, Chem. Phys.72 (1982) 407

    Google Scholar 

  21. G.W. Klein and R.H. Schuler, J. Phys. Chem.77 (1973) 978

    Google Scholar 

  22. S.J. Rzad, P.P. Infelta, J.M. Warman, and R.H. Schuler, J. Chem. Phys.52 (1970) 3971

    Google Scholar 

  23. A.O. Allen, T.E. Gangwer, and R.A. Holroyd, J. Phys. Chem.79 (1975) 25

    Google Scholar 

  24. P.W. Percival, J. Chem. Phys.72 (1980) 2901

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut der Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Zürich, Switzerland

    E. Roduner

Authors
  1. E. Roduner
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Support by the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research and by the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (SIN) are gratefully acknowledged.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Roduner, E. Formation of muonium substituted free radicals. Hyperfine Interact 19, 785–791 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02066121

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02066121

Keywords

Search

Navigation