Free Radicals - GRE Subject Test: Chemistry

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Question

Which of the following steps of free radical chlorination does not produce a free radical as a product?

Answer

The three steps of a free radical chlorination reaction are, in order, initiation, propagation, and termination.

Free radicals are produced in the initiation and propagation steps. The termination steps combine any two free radicals formed in the reaction to produce a compound that has no unpaired electrons (free radicals).

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