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The radical cation (RC) of methoxyacetone exhibits a delocalization of spin density between two oxygen atoms with considerable spin population on methylene hydrogen atoms, which results in the selective deprotonation of this RC.
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Nuzhdin et al. (2008) studied this question.
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