Talk:Organic peroxides

Did you know section
text suggests that peroxides are used in epoxy resins. in fact, peroxides are used as initiators in polyester resins, but not in epoxy resins, where component B usually contains multifunctional amines. Chris

Perhaps a fact from this article could be suggested at template talk:did you know. &mdash; Pekinensis 01:00, 24 July 2005 (UTC)


 * If you think it's a good idea, please do it. :) --Shaddack 02:21, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

I would be happy to, but I fear my poor knowledge of chemistry limits my ability to choose the most interesting fact, or phrase it appropriately out of context. &mdash; Pekinensis 02:57, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Explosive polymerizations
Um, what? Exothermic, perhaps, but in all my chemistry, I've never heard of an explosive polymerization. I'll get back to this article when I have more time/wait out the lock on my account because I have too many passwords. 142.157.10.132 (talk) 15:31, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Ethylene oxide will undergo explosive polymerization. Just google "ethylene oxide explosive polymerization".Silverchemist (talk) 16:45, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Ethylene oxide is an epoxide, not a peroxide. 199.116.175.202 (talk) 18:02, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

The reference to use by paramilitaries should be changed to terrorists, should it not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.15.138 (talk) 06:02, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Split into hydroperoxide and the other kind?
It seems that ROOR and ROOH have pretty different origins and behaviors (I am unsure what the diorganoperoxides are called, so advice on that would be welcome). If other editors have views on my proposal to split this article into hydroperoxide (currently redirects here) and whatever-ROOR-are called, leave comments here. --Smokefoot (talk) 14:10, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I just re-initiated this proposed split. If no objections are registered, then I will act in a couple of days.--Smokefoot (talk) 18:29, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I propose to merge alkenyl peroxides into organic peroxides. Most of the content would be jettisoned except the mention that alkenes degrade in the atmosphere partly via this path. Alkenyl peroxide is a specialty of Martin Klussmann, as reflected in many of the references. In summary: minor topic created under suspicious circumstances. --Smokefoot (talk) 00:23, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
 * It is not a large topic. March's organic textbook makes no mention of vinyl peroxides or alkenyl peroxides.
 * The overview article (ref 1) has accumulated 30 citations
 * The founding editor is user:Klusiwurm, which is pretty close to the main researcher's name Klussmann, suggesting a WP:COI.