“…Low radiation-chemical yields of the formation of radiolysis products are related to relatively short lifetimes of ion pairs and high yields of excited states, which are quite stable and less prone to fragmentation reactions due to energy distribution over conjugated π bonds, [14]. The homolytic transformations of phenol-formaldehyde resin can induce various ion-molecule reactions, for example, reaction (4), the decomposition of excited molecules according to reaction (5), and radical-molecule reactions, for example, (6). As a result, radicals of phenoxyl (I) and methylene (II) types are predominantly formed; they exhibit thermodynamic stability due to spin density delocalization in the aromatic system.…”