https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.C00948
When in a @[email protected] there is a net increase in the number of @[email protected] there is said to be chain branching. A simple example of a @[email protected] leading to chain branching is:
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in which there is one @[email protected] (an oxygen atom) on the left and two chain carriers (a hydrogen atom and a hydroxyl radical) on the right.See also:
degenerate chain branching