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A polar solvent and high temperature favours to:

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homolytic bond fission
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heterolytic bond fission
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both A and B
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none of these
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Solution

The correct option is A homolytic bond fission
Homolytic bond fission is favoured by high tempereture because energy is required to break the bond. The formation of radicals involve breaking of covalent bonds by homolysis, a process that requires significant amounts of energy. Such energies are known as homolytic bond dissociation energies,

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