Subject: RADICAL ANIONS, STABILITY

From: "E. Lewars" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:08:43 -0400 (EDT)

1999 August 11

                   RADICAL ANIONS, ELECTRON AFFINITY

Calculations on the radical cations of molecules are fairly common, often in
connection with comparison with experimental ionization energies. In contrast,
little seems to have been published on the experimental or computational
study of simple (alkanes, cycloalkanes, etc) radical anions.

QUESTION: do simple radical anions, in contrast to radical cations, dissociate
spontaneously (e.g. CH3-CH3.-  --> CH3. + CH3- )? Has this been well documented
experimentally and/or computationally?

  Thanks
   E. Lewars
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