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For the following bond cleavages, use curved arrows to show the electron flow and classify homolysis or heterolysis. Identify reactive intermediate produced as free radical, carbocation and carbanion.
\[\ce{CH3O - OCH3 -> CH3\overset\bullet{\text{O}} + \overset\bullet{\text{O}}CH3}\]
Solution
The bond cleavage using curved-arrows to show the electron flow of the given reaction can be represented as
It is an example of homolytic cleavage as one of the shared pair in a covalent bond goes with the bonded atom. The reaction intermediate formed is a free radical.
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