Consider the gas-phase reaction:
The reaction was experimentally determined to be first order in
Proposed mechanism I:
Proposed mechanism II:
a. Show that both of the proposed mechanisms are valid.
b. What kind of experimental evidence might lead you to favor mechanism II over mechanism I?
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