Homolytic fission
What Homolytic fission means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: OCR
Breaking of a covalent bond in which the shared pair is split evenly, so each bonding atom receives one electron from the bonded pair.
The process in which the bond breaks so that each atom takes one electron from the shared pair, producing the halogen radicals.
The breaking of a bond in which each bonded atom takes one electron of the shared pair, forming radicals.
A bond splits so that one electron goes to each atom, producing radicals.
Topics that use Homolytic fission
- Reaction mechanisms (AQA A-Level)
- Basic concepts of organic chemistry (OCR A-Level)
- Haloalkanes (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Curly arrow conventions
- Heterolytic fission
- reaction mechanisms
- Alphabetical ordering of substituents
- Aromatic compound
- Bond strength and reactivity down Group 7
- Carbon–halogen bond enthalpy
- carboxyl group
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