Decomposition of peroxybenzoic acid was studied in diethyl, diisopropyl and di-n-butyl ether and explained in terms of the same radical mechanism that was postulated previously. Besides ready induced decomposition of peroxybenzoic acid by solvent radicals and facile abstraction of a hydrogen atom from ether by radicals, attack of peroxybenzoate anions on peroxybenzoic acid was pointed out to be an important contributing factor for the relatively rapid decomposition in ethers.
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Tokumaru et al. (1962) studied this question.
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