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A new tin-free source of amidyl radicals
Fabien Gagosz1, Cecile Moutrille, Samir Z Zard
1Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique associé au CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France.
Organic Letters
|August 3, 2002
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] The readily available N-(O-ethyl thiocarbonylsulfanyl)amides are powerful amidyl radical precursors that undergo 5-exo cyclization to give pyrrolidinone derivatives via a radical-chain reaction initiated by a small amount of lauroyl peroxide.