Free Radical Reactions
Free Radical Reactions – Chlorination of Methane Alkanes are pretty boring, chemically speaking. They don’t tend to undergo many reactions. However, when they are treated
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3 Factors That Stabilize Free Radicals
What Factors Affect Free-Radical Stability? In the last article we introduced free radicals – neutral, electron-deficient chemical species with a partially filled orbital – and
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Bond Dissociation Energies And Radical Stability The last article discussed factors which stabilize – and destabilize – free radials. So how do we quantify free-radical
Read moreFree Radical Initiation: Why Is “Light” Or “Heat” Required?
Free-Radical Reactions Require Heat Or Light For Initiation (Bond-Breaking) If you come across just a few free-radical reactions, you should notice a familiar pattern. Every
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Initiation, Propagation, and Termination In Free Radical Reactions In the previous post on free radical substitution reactions we talked about why heat or light is
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How Many Monochlorination Isomers Are Formed From Free-Radical Chlorination Of Alkanes? Last time we covered a comparatively simple reaction: free-radical chlorination of methane to (CH4)
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Free Radical Chlorination: Selectivity This post is all about the selectivity of free-radical halogenation: what does “selectivity” mean, anyway? And how do we calculate it? It’s often
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The Selectivity of Free-Radical Bromination vs Chlorination. A Detailed Answer In last article on radicals (See Article – Selectivity in Free Radical Reactions) we saw
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Thinking Through The Selectivity of Bromination vs Chlorination: An Intuitive Analogy As we discussed in the last post on radicals, bromine radicals are considerably more
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Allylic Bromination and Benzylic Bromination: What Is It, And How Does It Work? In previous articles on radicals, we’ve seen how bromine (Br2) can selectively
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