Question

Explain isotopes have been used to study the reaction path and mechanism

Answer 1

Answer:-

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS) techniques detect isotopic differences.

They allows to determine the position of labeled atoms in a product ‘s structure.

Isotopic labeling is a mechanism used to track the passage of an isotope through a reaction, metabolic pathway.

Knowing the information about the position of isotopic atoms in products, the reaction pathway can also be determined.