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The Mechanisms Of Hydride Exchange, Organic Combination And Displacement Reactions, Weifang Hao
The Mechanisms Of Hydride Exchange, Organic Combination And Displacement Reactions, Weifang Hao
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The primary aim of this dissertation was to seek the answer to the question: “Is the single transition-state model appropriate for the fundamental reactions in organic chemistry?” The goal was accomplished by performing enormous kinetic data collection and detailed mechanistic analysis on several typical fundamental organic chemical reactions. Three new methodologies for differentiating between a simple one-step and complex multi-step mechanism were developed and extensively confirmed during the application in the kinetic studies of all of the reaction discussed in this dissertation. The three methods consist of (1) half-life dependence of kapp, (2) sequential linear pseudo-first-order correlation, and (3) revised …