What is the alkyl radical of methanol?

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anor277
Mar 18, 2018

Well, this is not something you could put in a bottle...

Explanation:

We gots...#H_3C-OH#...if the #C-O# bond heterolytically cleaves we get...

#H_3C-OH rarr H_3C* + *OH#

...if the #O-H# bond heterolytically cleaves we get...

#H_3C-OH rarr H_3C- O* +*H#

Of course these are high energy species....

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