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ELECTRON TRANSFER IN ORGANIC REACTIONS
Author(s) -
Patz Matthias,
Fukuzumi Shunichi
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of physical organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1395
pISSN - 0894-3230
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1395(199703)10:3<129::aid-poc884>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - chemistry , electrophile , electron transfer , nucleophile , computational chemistry , transfer (computing) , bond , organic reaction , photochemistry , chemical physics , organic chemistry , catalysis , finance , parallel computing , computer science , economics
Abstract Most organic bond‐forming reactions can be described as nucleophile–electrophile combinations. For many of these reactions there have been discussions as to whether the bond formation occurs together with the electron transfer or whether electron transfer and bond formation take place in separate steps. This discussion is reviewed and it is shown how to distinguish between the different processes based on kinetic analysis. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.