One-Carbon Ring Expansion in Cyclopentanones as a Free-Radical Clock

C Chatgilialoglu, VI Timokhin…

Index: Chatgilialoglu, C.; Timokhin, V. I.; Ballestri, M. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1998 , vol. 63, # 4 p. 1327 - 1329

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Abstract

Free radicals are of considerable importance in the development of organic chemistry, and many radicalbased strategies employ group-14 hydrides. 2 One of the propagation steps of these radical chain reactions is the hydrogen transfer from the reducing agent to a radical (eq 1). To modulate the hydrogen donating abilities of the hydrides, a significant number of substrates has been introduced. 3, 4