Any chemical reaction which swaps a hydrogen radical between two molecules
In
chemistry, hydrogen atom abstraction, or hydrogen atom transfer (HAT), refers to a class of
chemical reactions where a hydrogen
free radical (a neutral
hydrogen atom) is removed from a
substrate, another molecule. This process follows the general equation:
^Snyder, Benjamin E. R.; Vanelderen, Pieter; Bols, Max L.; Hallaert, Simon D.; Böttger, Lars H.; Ungur, Liviu; Pierloot, Kristine; Schoonheydt, Robert A.; Sels, Bert F. (August 2016). "The active site of low-temperature methane hydroxylation in iron-containing zeolites". Nature. 536 (7616): 317–321.
Bibcode:
2016Natur.536..317S.
doi:
10.1038/nature19059.
ISSN0028-0836.
PMID27535535.
S2CID4467834.