Editing Benzoyl peroxide (section)

==History==
Benzoyl peroxide was first prepared and described by [[Justus von Liebig]] in 1858.<ref name=lieb1858/><!--  It was the first organic peroxide prepared intentionally.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}-->
[[Donald Holroyde Hey]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | vauthors = Cadogan JI, Davies DI | author-link1 = John Cadogan | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1988.0011 | title = Donald Holroyde Hey. 12 September 1904-21 January 1987 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 34 | pages = 294–320 | year = 1988 | jstor = 770054| doi-access = free }}</ref> (12 September 1904 – 21 January 1987) was a [[Wales|Welsh]] organic chemist who inferred that the decomposition of benzoyl peroxide generated [[free radical|free phenyl radicals]].<ref>{{Cite journal | vauthors = Hey DH | author-link = Donald Holroyde Hey| title = 432. Amphoteric aromatic substitution. Part II. Reactions of benzoyl peroxide and phenylazotriphenylmethane | doi = 10.1039/JR9340001966 | journal = Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed) | page = 1966| year = 1934 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | veditors =  Davies J, Jenkins N, Menna B, Lynch PI | editor1-link=John Davies (historian) |title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |pages=367–368 |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6}}</ref>