Chemistry A-Level
Radical formation
What Radical formation means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Radical formation
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Because each atom keeps one of the two electrons, each fragment is left with an unpaired electron and is therefore a radical.
Topics that use Radical formation
- Basic concepts of organic chemistry (OCR A-Level)
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- Aromatic compound
- carboxyl group
- Characteristic reactions
- Condensed notation with brackets and subscripts
- Contrast with heterolytic fission
- Curly arrow notation
- delocalised electrons
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