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Offline -_-zzzz

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Free Radicals at STP
« on: November 27, 2018, 01:55:14 AM »
Why can’t free radicals participate in redox reactions ar STP? For example the reaction between sodium and chlorine is always written as 2Na(s) + Cl2(g) ——> 2NaCl(s) instead of as Na(s) + Cl(g) ——> NaCl(s)
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Re: Free Radicals at STP
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2018, 02:56:31 AM »
At STP they recombine way too fast to exist in significant amounts and have any serious impact on this kind of reaction.
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Re: Free Radicals at STP
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2018, 05:32:40 AM »
A reaction written that way only describes the reactants and products, not the intermediates.

Reaction steps may involve free radicals, in extremely small amount and very short-lived, as they take much more energy to produce than is available from the temperature as a mean.
http://people.chem.ucsb.edu/neuman/robert/orgchembyneuman.book/11%20RadicalSubstitutionAddition/11FullChapt.pdf
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