Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the chemical effects of nuclear transformations. The chemical effects of nuclear transformations are mainly the chemical reactions of energetic (hot), electronically excited, and thermal radioactive recoil atoms, produced by nuclear reactions and of hot, excited, and thermal ions, produced by nuclear decay. The thermalization of energetic recoil atoms in excess moderator is a useful tool to measure kinetic parameters for abstraction, substitution, and addition reactions. For thermal experiments, the bulk of the sample must consist of a compound that is inert for hot and thermal reactions with the recoil atom and able to supply the radio-active atom. Hot T-for-H substitution occurs mainly with retention of configuration. Inversion seems theoretically possible only when very light substituents are bound to that C atom at which the substitution takes place. Unfortunately, it appears to be impossible to prove inversion experimentally.
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