Roaming — a new and unusual reaction mechanism in gas-phase chemical transformations — is now shown to occur in solution. Following ultraviolet excitation of geminal tribromides, what initially seems to be the simple fission of a bond is in fact isomerization occurring through the roaming of molecular fragments.
- Andrey S. Mereshchenko
- Evgeniia V. Butaeva
- Alexander N. Tarnovsky
