The reactions of active nitrogen with propane, cyclopropane, cyclobutane, and neopentane.
In 1900, Gomberg (32) demonstrated that hexaphenylethane dissociates symmetrically in solution into two electrically neutral triphenylmethyl fragments, each possessing a trivalent carbon atom. Ever since this discovery, the investigation of similar free radicals containing unpaired electrons has pla...
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McGill University
1954
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| Summary: | In 1900, Gomberg (32) demonstrated that hexaphenylethane dissociates symmetrically in solution into two electrically neutral triphenylmethyl fragments, each possessing a trivalent carbon atom. Ever since this discovery, the investigation of similar free radicals containing unpaired electrons has played an increasingly important part in the formal development of chemical kinetics and especially in the elucidation of complex reaction mechanisms. Prior to the suggestion that free alkyl radicals might be involved in the mechanisms of thermal and photochemical reactions of simple organic molecules, the role of free atoms in chemical mechanisms was firmly established. |
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