This procedure changes over two generally shoddy beginning materials, benzene and propylene, into two more profitable ones, phenol and CH3)2CO. Different reactants required are oxygen from air and little measures of a radical initiator.
this cumene radical then bonds with an oxygen particle to give cumene peroxide radical, which thus frames cumene hydroperoxide (C6H5C(CH3)2-O-O-H) by abstracting benzylic hydrogen from another cumene atom. This last cumene changes over into cumene radical and nourishes once more into resulting chain developments of cumene hydroperoxides. A weight of 5 atm is utilized to guarantee that the flimsy peroxide is kept in fluid state.