The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Rearrangement of rigid cyclopropylcarbinyl radicals: investigation of a reporter system for the detection of very short-lived radicals

RP Lemieux, P Beak

Index: Lemieux, Robert P.; Beak, Peter Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1990 , vol. 55, # 20 p. 5454 - 5460

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Abstract

A central issue for a number of reactions that can be formulated either as two sequential inner-sphere singleelectron transfers or as a one-step two-electron process is how these conceptually different pathways can be distinguished experimentally.'J The difficulty of this distinction is well recognized; an in-cage process of two sequential single-electron transfers in which the second electron transfer is more rapid than molecular reorientation will not ...