Recent chemical activation studies of isomerizations of alkyl and alkenyl radicals involving 5, 6, and 7 member ring complexes are shown to be consistent with earlier thermal studies and support the conclusion that the A-factors of these reactions are "low", i.e. substantially less than 1011 s−1. A possible explanation, consistent with transition state theory, is given in terms of configurational entropy.
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