Ozone/ethylene double bond interaction

The authors [23] applied the method of density fimctional (exchange-correlation functional B3LYP) and calculated the profdes of the potential energy for the interaction of ozone with ethylene. It was shown that, according to the scheme of ozonolysis of ethylene, the reaction pathway through the direct epoxidation of the double C=C bond requires high energy of activation and is improbable, both for thermochemical and photochemical reactions of ozonolysis. 

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