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Does the Hydrogen Free radical exist?
« on: April 25, 2012, 05:52:36 AM »
Hi, my teacher was discussing free radical substitution in class, and when we were on the issue of termination, he made it a point that a hydrogen radical does not exist. But why is this so?

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