Thiyl radicals have been used by nature in a broad range of biochemical processes. For
instance, thiol residues play an important role in many enzymatic processes as illustrated by …

Free radicals are of considerable importance in the development of organic chemistry, as
has been shown in recentyears in the synthesis of complicated poly-functional molecules. 1 …

Interest in organic radical reactions has rapidly increased over the past several years as
radical-based methods for organic synthesis have evolved'and as it has become …

For quite some time, the chemistry of carbohydrate derivatives has been based essentially
on ionic processes. The glycosidation reaction, which constitutes a continuing challenge in …

Reagents, containing a PH bond, such as dimethyl phosphite, diethyl phosphite,
hypophosphorous acid and various salts of hypophosphorous acid are effective radical …

A new strategy has been developed for reductive amination of aldehydes and ketones with
the InCl3/Et3SiH/MeOH system, which is a nontoxic system with highly chemoselective and …

Publisher Summary Collection of kinetic data for reactions of the group 14 hydrides with
various radicals provides essential information to chemists in both the synthetic and physical …

This book describes the experience over 25 years of the senior author with the chemistry of
organic free radicals. It begins with a mechanistic study of industrial importance on the …

The stannane 1, which is simple to prepare, behaves like the conventional reagents
Bu3SnH and Ph3SnH in standard free radical reactions, but with the special characteristic …

The thiol-catalysed radical-chain additions of triphenylsilane and of tris (trimethylsilyl) silane
to a number of cyclic prochiral terminal alkenes have been carried out at 60° C in the …