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IN the hope of trapping the radicals probably produced during the photolysis of diethyl peroxide, the vapour of the latter was mixed with a several-fold excess of nitric oxide in a 3-litre ‘Pyrex’ bulb. The mixture was then passed through a water-cooled helical silica tube surrounding a mercury arc into a trap immersed in ‘Drikold’. Suspiciously large amounts of ethyl nitrite were found in the trap, and even larger quantities were collected in a blank run without the arc. After the mixture had been stored in the dark for twenty-four hours, spectrophotometric examination showed that a major portion of the peroxide had been converted into nitrite.
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MORTLOCK, H., STYLE, D. Reaction between Diethyl Peroxide and Nitric Oxide. Nature 170, 706 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170706a0
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