Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... A novel radical reductive opening of 1,2-epoxides is reported to yield mainly the secondary alcohols with good regio and chemoselectivity. The reaction NaI,n-Bu 3 SnH and AIBN at 80 C for 1–6 h. ... C. Bonini and R. Di Fabio, Tetrahedron Lett., preceding paper in this issue.