
%0 Journal Article
%A Lin, CY 
%A Lin, CY 
%A Lin, MC 
%A Lin, MC 
%T The Combination Reaction of CH<sub>3</sub> and C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub>O
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1986/05/01
%V 39
%N 5
%P 723-734
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9860723
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9860723 
%X The kinetics and mechanism of the CH3+C6H5O reaction have been examined by means of the RRKM theory and kinetic modelling . Both the high temperature shock tube data for the production of cresols and the low temperature branching ratios (for production of cresols against methylcyclohexadienones , CH3C6H5O) derived from Mulcahy and Williams's data1 on the pyrolysis of di -t-butyl peroxide and phenol mixtures could be reasonably accounted for by the mechanism:            CH3+C6H5O &#8594; CH3C6H5O &#8594; o- and p-CH3C6H4OH+M&#8594; CH3C6H5OThe energy barrier for the thermal isomerization of CH3C6H5O to cresols was estimated to be ~ 132 kJ mol-1. 
