IGNOU CHE 6 2018 - How free radicals are generated using redox reaction? Give at least tw

Question

How free radicals are generated using redox reaction? Give at least two examples.
What are the major advantages of such reactions?

25 Jan 2018

Answer :

Word Count : 366

Free radical reactions are redox reactions that occur as a part of homeostasis and killing microorganisms, where an electron detaches from a molecule and then reattaches almost instantaneously. Free radicals are a part of redox molecules and can become harmful to the human body if they do not reattach to the redox molecule or an antioxidant. Unsatisfied free radicals can spur the mutation of cells they encounter and are, thus, causes of cancer.

any important biological processes involve redox reactions.

Cellular respiration, for instance, is the oxidation of

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