Posts Tagged ‘fairly simple model for the reaction between bromine and ethene’

Text-books and the bromination of ethene.

Sunday, October 14th, 2012

There is often a disconnect between how a text-book (schematically) represents a reaction and a more quantitive “reality” revealed by quantum mechanics. Is the bromination of ethene to give 1,2-dibromoethane one such example?

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