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No Marked Kinetic Isotope Effect in the Peroxone (H 2 O 2 /D 2 O 2 +O 3 ) Reaction: Mechanistic Consequences
Author(s) -
Sein Myint Myint,
Golloch Alfred,
Schmidt Torsten C.,
von Sonntag Clemens
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
chemphyschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.016
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1439-7641
pISSN - 1439-4235
DOI - 10.1002/cphc.200700493
Subject(s) - kinetic isotope effect , chemistry , reaction mechanism , photochemistry , hydride , electron transfer , kinetic energy , reaction rate , computational chemistry , deuterium , organic chemistry , hydrogen , catalysis , physics , quantum mechanics
Radical species : Controversy surrounds the peroxone reaction mechanism; does the rate‐determining step involve an electron‐transfer or a hydride‐transfer reaction? The authors re‐investigate the peroxone reaction in D 2 O to resolve the issue (see figure).