Radical-chain redox rearrangement of cyc
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Brian P Roberts; Teika M Smits
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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French
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Cyclic benzylidene acetals derived from 1,2-and 1,3-diols undergo an efficient ring-opening redox rearrangement to give benzoate esters in the presence of a peroxide initiator and a thiol, which acts as a polarity-reversal catalyst to promote the radical-chain reaction.