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Free Radical Reactions involving no Unpaired Electrons

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REACTIONS between free radicals and molecules have been extensively investigated. These involve numerous reactions of hydrogen abstraction and substitution with the contribution of unpaired electrons1–3:

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NEIMAN, M., ROZANTZEV, E. & MAMEDOVA, Y. Free Radical Reactions involving no Unpaired Electrons. Nature 196, 472–474 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196472a0

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