ABSTRACT
Liquid-phase oxidation of organic compounds is performed in laboratories and technological
installations at 300-500 K. Under these conditions, organic compounds are quite stable, and
their decomposition with dissociation at the CC bond and in the reaction of retrodisproportionation
RHþ CH2¼¼CHR1 ! R. þ CH3C.HR1
does not virtually occur. Chain generation in the absence of initiating additives and those
formed by hydrocarbon oxidation occur preferentially via the reactions involving dioxygen.
The mechanism of chain initiation in an oxidized RH in the absence of ROOH was intensively
discussed in the 1950s and 1960s [1-4].
