1. Reactive intermediates: Radicals with multiple personalities.
- Author
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Forbes, Malcolm D. E.
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RADICALS (Chemistry) , *ION analysis , *MOLECULAR orbitals , *NITROXIDES , *FULVALENES , *ANIONS , *COMPUTATIONAL chemistry - Abstract
The article focuses on radicals with multiple personalities, based from combined theoretical and experimental approach. It mentions that distonics ions are ions that contain both positive and negative charges. It states that tetrathiofulvalene-nitronylnitroxide (TTF-NN) complex is an example of orbital energy-level conversion, in which radical centre of singly occupied molecular orbital (SOMO) has lower energy compared to doubly occupied molecular orbital (HOMO). It adds that mass spectrometrist Stephen Blanskby and computational chemist Michelle Coote has suggested that orbital conversion in distonic anion are common that usually thought.
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- 2013
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