STAVELEY and Hinshelwood have recently shown that the thermal homogeneous decompositions of certain substances such as ethers and aldehydes are to a greater or less extent inhibited by small amounts of nitric oxide, and they have used this as a means of establishing the extent to which these reactions proceed via a mechanism of reaction chains1. With dimethyl ether the effect is most marked, and in this case, when the decomposition is about half completed, the reaction velocity rises fairly abruptly to its normal value.

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H.W.HOMPSON& M.MSSNR,.Inhibitions of Organic Decompositions by Nitric Oxide. 139 (3528),1018-1019.

H.W.HOMPSON& M.MSSNR,"Inhibitions of Organic Decompositions by Nitric Oxide" 139

H.W.HOMPSON& M.MSSNR,"Inhibitions of Organic Decompositions by Nitric Oxide"