Journal of the American Chemical Society

Carbonium ions from alkyl radicals by electron transfer

JK Kochi, A Bemis

Index: Kochi,J.K.; Bemis,A. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1968 , vol. 90, p. 4038 - 4051

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Abstract

Abstract: Alkyl radicals are oxidized by Cu" complexes in acetonitrile-acetic acid solutions to a mixture of alkenes and alkyl esters (and acetamides). These electron transfer processes have been termed oxidative elimination (alkenes) and oxidative substitution (esters, etc.). The oxidation of four principal classes of alkyl radicals: neopentyl, homoallylic (cyclobutyl, cyclopropylmethyl, and allylcarbinyl), 0-arylethyl, and cyclopropyl, has been scrutinized. ...