Radiolysis of aqueous solutions of tetrazolium salts

1.	In --radiolysis of aqueous solutions of nitrotetrazolium salts, the yield of formazane in a neutral medium is higher than that for 2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride. The yields of formazanes increase in alkaline medium and in the presence of OH radical acceptors.
2.	A correlation between the values of the rate constants of the reactions of the CO2– radicals with tetrazolium salts and the half-wave potentials of the reduction of these salts was established.

Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1746–1750, August, 1988.