Stable radicals during photodecarbonylations of trityl-alkyl ketones enable solid state reactions through primary and secondary radical centers

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1731-1734

  Kuzmanich, Gregory ^a   Natarajan, Arunkumar ^a,c   Shi, Yanhui ^b   Patrick, Brian O ^b   Scheffer, John R ^b   Garcia Garibay, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 80455176451     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c1pp05240c     Document Type: Article

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