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Decomposition of peroxybenzoic acid was studied in n-heptane, cyclohexane, cumene, and toluene. The hydrocarbons were oxidized to the corresponding alcohols, which were often oxidized further. For these decompositions, a radical chain mechanism was proposed, which involves the homolytic rupture of the oxygen-oxygen bond of peroxybenzoic acid as the initiation process and an induced decomposition of this bond by solvent radicals derived from hydrocarbon molecules.
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Tokumaru et al. (1962) studied this question.
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