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oxidative addition


The insertion of a metal of a metal complex into a covalent bond involving formally an overall two-electron loss on one metal or a one-electron loss on each of two metals, i.e., LnMm + XY LnMm+2(X)(Y), or 2 LnMm + XY LnMm+1(X) + LnMm+1(Y) In free-radical chemistry, the term is used to indicate a free radical addition to a carbon-carbon double bond, [..]
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