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Science 18 September 1970:
Vol. 169. no. 3951, pp. 1206 - 1207
DOI: 10.1126/science.169.3951.1206
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Oxidation of a Polymer Surface with Gas-Phase Singlet (1Dgrg) Oxygen

M. L. Kaplan 1 and P. G. Kelleher 1

1 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974

Singlet molecular oxygen (1Dgrg) produced by the microwave discharge of ground state oxygen in a flow system was passed over a film of cis-polybutadiene. This treatment resulted in the formation, at the surface, of hydroperoxides which were detected by internal reflection infrared spectroscopy.

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