“…4 The solvents n С 7 H 16 (1), CCl 4 (2), benzene (3), 1,4 dioxane (4), ethyl acetate (5), acetone (6), tert butanol (7), acetonitrile (8), and ethanol (9) were purified by known procedures. 5 The kinetics of valeraldehyde oxidation by chlorine dioxide in various solvents was studied on a Specord M40 spectrophotometer (Carl Zeiss Jena) by a decrease in the absorbance at the absorption maxima of ClO 2 at 356, 359, 360, 354, 358, 361, 362, 363, and 360 nm in a medium of solvents 1-9 under the condition that [ClO 2 ] 0 << [RCHO] 0 , where [ClO 2 ] 0 and [RCHO] 0 are the initial concentrations of chlorine dioxide and aldehyde.…”