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Free radicals can be generated by which type of covalent bond cleavage ? 

Option: 1

Heterolytic 


Option: 2

Homolytic 


Option: 3

both a and b 


Option: 4

None of these 


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Homolytic Covalent bond fission (cleavage ) -

Bonded atom takes away one e - out of shared pair.

 Upon homolytic cleavage of covalent bond free radicals are produced. 

Therefore, option (2) is correct.

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