Free Radical Chemistry Enabled by Visible Light-Induced Electron Transfer

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2295-2306

  Staveness, Daryl ^a   Bosque, Irene ^a   Stephenson, Corey R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PYRROLIDONE DERIVATIVE; FREE RADICAL; GLIOCLADIN C; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

CATALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FREE RADICALS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PIPERAZINES; PYRROLIDINONES;

EID: 84991753314     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00270     Document Type: Article

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