Question

What is the difference between homolytic and hereotylic reactions? Do primary, secondary and teriterary alcohols vary for each?

Answer 1

do you mean homolytic cleavage?

Answer 2

First of all, you need to know about homolytic and heterolytic fissions:
Homolytic fission - the type of bond cleavage process in which when the atoms in the bonded molecule dissociate, each of them retains one of the bonded electrons, forming free radicals.

Heterolytic fission - the type of bond breaking process in which the most electronegative atom of the bond retains 2 of the bonded electrons, becoming negatively charged (anion or nucleophile) and the other atom becomes positively charged (electrophile)

Answer 3

I actually explained homolytic and heterolytic reactions. Aloow me to exemplify each of them:
Homolytic reaction or homolytic fission or homolysis: Cl2 (via ultraviolet light) - Cl* + Cl* actually it should have been a dot instead of asterisk.
Heterolytic fission or heterolysis or Heterolytic reaction: NH4OH - NH3+ + OH-. It is formation of NH3 cation and OH anion.

Answer 4

I would say that all the alcohols undergo heterolysis, because an anion is needed to replace the OH anion in the alcohols to make other compounds in substitution reactions, in which during heterolysis, the OH part of the molecules gains electrons and the rest of the mlolecules loses electrons, forming electrophile and nucleophile.

Answer 5

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