Short‐lived radicals such as (1) can be compelled to undergo unusual reactions if they are generated in the presence of a metal colloid catalyst in aqueous solution. Instead of combining, disprotionating, or dismuting, the radicals (1) participate in a redox process leading to evolution of H2, according to the overall equation: equation image
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A. Henglein (1979) studied this question.