Timeline for What purpose do chain reactions serve?
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| Mar 27, 2014 at 20:47 | vote | accept | user3034084 | ||
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 14:36 | answer | added | Uncle Al | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 13:35 | answer | added | Klaus-Dieter Warzecha | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 12:49 | comment | added | Nicolau Saker Neto | I imagine you mean to say it's very hard to control the products of typical radical reactions. While true, it is also true that radical mechanisms can operate on molecules which are otherwise almost inert and very hard to derivatize, such as alkanes. C-H bond activation is a major issue in organic chemistry today, yet we've known for over 100 years that radical reactions can easily substitute hydrogen atoms linked to carbon. It just happens that radical C-H activation usually comes at the cost of low chemical selectivity and the formation of many byproducts. | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 12:13 | comment | added | Sensebe | Are you joking, open your textbook and see nuclear reactor:). I was just joking, nuclear reactor is one of the major application of chain reaction, it is common in all textbooks. | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 11:53 | comment | added | Klaus-Dieter Warzecha | Would you mind to give an example for an utterly useless chain reaction? | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 11:47 | history | edited | jonsca | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2014 at 11:36 | history | asked | user3034084 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |