Study reveals peculiar mechanism of radical addition-elimination
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 10:00
in Physics & Chemistry
For the first time, researchers have shown that a dissociation pathway, or mechanism for breaking chemical bonds, called roaming radical dynamics is a possibility for not just simple, single molecule reactions but more complex, multiple molecule, or bimolecular, reactions. A combination of imaging experiments and high-level quantum chemical calculations allowed for this dissociation pathway in bimolecular reactions to be disentangled both directly and indirectly.