Ward AJ, Lesic RA, Proschogo N, Masters AF, Maschmeyer T. Strained surface siloxanes as a source of synthetically important radicals.
RSC Adv 2015. [DOI:
10.1039/c5ra20399f]
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Abstract
The calcination of pure amorphous silica at temperatures up to 850 °C results in the formation of strained siloxane rings which are capable of undergoing homolytic cleavage to generate radicals when in the presence of an appropriate substrate.
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