Chemical Communications

A radical-based approach to hydroxytetralones from unprotected phenols

L Petit, SZ Zard

Index: Petit, Laurent; Zard, Samir Z. Chemical Communications, 2010 , vol. 46, # 28 p. 5148 - 5150

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Abstract

In order to overcome this repulsion and encourage the radical to adopt a more propitious conformation, we considered the possibility of exploiting the intramolecular hydrogen bond that is bound to exist with the naked phenol. As indicated in structure 8, such a relatively strong hydrogen bond would freeze the molecule in the desired conformation. Another, perhaps less obvious advantage, is that the hydrogen bond will slow down hydrogen abstraction from the ...