Cui and coworkers claim that H2O˙+ and HO˙ are formed spontaneously by lowering the pH to below 4. This is thermodynamically most unlikely. Thus, proton transfer does not involve HO˙.
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W. H. Koppenol, Chem. Sci., 2026, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D5SC05396J
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