Stereoretention in styrene heterodimerisation promoted by one-electron oxidants
Xinglong Zhang, Robert S. Paton
Abstract
) is a better solvent than acetonitrile, in part due to its ability to stabilise the reduced form of the hypervalent iodine initiator by hydrogen bonding, but also through the stabilisation of radical cationic intermediates along the reaction coordinate.
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