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Radical Alkylations of Alkyl Halides and Unactivated CH Bonds Using Vinyl Triflates

JY Lee, KC Lim, X Meng, S Kim

Index: Lee, Jin Young; Lim, Kyoung-Chan; Meng, Xiangjian; Kim, Sunggak Synlett, 2010 , # 11 p. 1647 - 1650

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Abstract

The key feature in our initial approach is the β-elimination of intermediate 1 to yield a carbonyl compound, along with liberation of an ethanesulfonyl radical (equation 1 and Scheme [²] ). [¹²] Second, thermal decomposition of the ethanesulfonyl radical followed by iodine atom transfer from an alkyl iodide to an ethyl radical would generate the alkyl radical for the chain-propagation reaction. Another important issue is the addition of the ethanesulfonyl radical to vinyl ...