Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9780321803221
Author: Paula Y. Bruice
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 13, Problem 40P
Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The value for the relative east of removing a hydrogen atom from tertiary, secondary and primary hydrogen carbons by a chlorine radical has to be given.

Concept introduction:

Radical or free radical: unpaired valence electron of an atom, molecule, or ion is called as radical.

Chlorine radical forms a tertiary radical five times faster than a primary radical and it forms a secondary radical 3.8 times faster than a primary radical.

Relative rates of alkyl radical formation by a chlorine radical at 125 °C.

Organic Chemistry, Chapter 13, Problem 40P

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