Polar and steric substituent effects in 5-exo-trig cyclizations of 1-aryl-4-penten-1-oxyl radicals

Liebigs Annales

Volumn , Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1425-1436

  Hartung, Jens ^a   Hiller, Margit ^a   Schmidt, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkoxyl radicals; Competition kinetics; Pyridinethiones; Tetrahydrofuran

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042622902     PISSN: 09473440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jlac.199619960914     Document Type: Article

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