Homolytic and Heterolytic Fission

Homolytic Fission: The breaking of a covalent bond with one of the bonded electrons going to each atom, forming two radicals

Heterolytic Fission: The breaking of a covalent bond with both of the bonded electrons going to each atom, forming a cation (positive ion) and an anion (negative ion)

Homolytic Fission

• Each of the bonded atoms takes one of the shared pair of electrons from…