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α-expulsion
in photochemistry
A general reaction by which a group attached to the alpha carbon of an excited chromophore is expelled either as an odd electron species or as an anionic species. This reaction should be distinguished from an α- (alpha-) cleavage
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PAC, 1988, 60, 1059
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Cite as: IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, Electronic version, http://goldbook.iupac.org/E00008.html.
Transformed and rewritten from PDF version (entry http://www.iupac.org/goldbook/E00008.pdf)
by: Miloslav Nic, Jiri Jirat, Bedrich Kosata, ICT Prague, Czech Republic
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