Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Word of the day: disproportionation

The word of the day is disproportionation:

Any chemical reaction of the type D01799-0, where A, A' and A'' are different chemical species. For example:


"The neutral radicals lead to the final photolysis products via dimerization and disproptionatation reactions."

 - D. N. Nikogosyan and H. Gorner, "Photolysis of aromatic amino acids in aqueous solution by nanosecond 248 and 193 nm laser light", Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 13:219 (1992)

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