Tetrahedron

Nucleophilic character of bridgehead free radicals

A Mangini, P Spagnolo, D Tassi, M Tiecco, P Zanirato

Index: Mangini,A. et al. Tetrahedron, 1972 , vol. 28, p. 3485 - 3488

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Abstract

Bridgehead free radicals have been produced in equimolecular mixtures of benzene and p- difluorobenzene by the thermal decomposition of the t-butylperoxyesters of 1-adamantyl, 1- bicyclo [2, 2, 2] octyl and 1-biciclo [2.2. 1] heptyl carboxylic acids. The reactivity of p- difluorobenzene relative to benzene indicated that bridgehead radicals possess nucleophilic character.