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The MNDO method has been used to calculate the pre-exponential factor A for the homolytic decomposition of aliphatic nitro and α-fluoronitro compounds. It is shown that the high value of A is due to the decrease in the frequencies of the deformation vibrations in the activated complexes.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 339–344, February, 1990.
The authors are grateful to K. Ya. Burshtein for his helpful criticism in discussing this work.
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Rezchikova, K.I., Solkan, V.N. & Kuznetsov, S.L. Quantum-chemical calculations by the MNDO method of the pre-exponential factor for the homolytic decomposition of aliphatic nitro and α-fluoronitro compounds in the gas phase. Russ Chem Bull 39, 283–286 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00960653
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