No Marked Kinetic Isotope Effect in the Peroxone (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>/D<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>+O<sub>3</sub>) Reaction: Mechanistic Consequences

Myint Myint Sein, Alfred Golloch, Torsten C. Schmidt, Clemens von Sonntag

ChemPhysChem · 2007 · 69 citations · 23 references

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Abstract

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 D2O to resolve the issue (see figure).

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