Ultrafast Chemistry of Water Radical Cation, H₂O, in Aqueous Solutions

Overview

Journal Molecules

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Biology

Date 2018 Jan 27

PMID 29373497

Citations 13

Authors

Jun Ma

Furong Wang

Mehran Mostafavi

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Abstract

Oxidation reactions by radicals constitute a very important class of chemical reactions in solution. Radiation Chemistry methods allow producing, in a controlled way, very reactive oxidizing radicals, such as OH, CO₃, NO₃, SO₄, and N₃. Although the radical cation of water, H₂O, with a very short lifetime (shorter than 1 ps) is the precursor of these radicals in aqueous solutions, its chemistry is usually known to be limited to the reaction of proton transfer by forming OH radical. Herein, we stress situations where H₂O undergoes electron transfer reaction in competition with proton transfer.

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