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Absolute Rate Constants for the Addition of Methyl Radicals to Alkenes in Solution: New Evidence for Polar Interactions

Torsten Zytowski, +1 more
- 17 Jan 1996 - 
- Vol. 118, Iss: 2, pp 437-439
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In this paper, absolute rate constants for the addition of the methyl radical to 20 monosubstituted and 1, 1 disubstitized alkenes at room temperature in liquid solution were reported.
Abstract
Absolute rate constants are reported for the addition of the methyl radical to 20 monosubstituted and 1,1-disubstituted alkenes at room temperature in liquid solution. They increase with increasing exothermicity of the addition and are enhanced by strong nucleophilic polar effects for electron-deficient alkenes. This agrees with conclusions derived from earlier relative rate data but disagrees with a general insignificance of polar effects predicted by ab initio calculations.

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Factors Controlling the Addition of Carbon‐Centered Radicals to Alkenes—An Experimental and Theoretical Perspective

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Versatile Enantioselective Synthesis of Functionalized Lactones via Copper-Catalyzed Radical Oxyfunctionalization of Alkenes.

TL;DR: A versatile method for the rapid synthesis of diverse enantiomerically enriched lactones has been developed based on Cu-catalyzed enantioselective radical oxyfunctionalization of alkenes, which provides straightforward access to a wide range of useful chiral lactone building blocks containing tetrasubstituted stereogenic centers.
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The mechanism of the propagation step in free-radical copolymerisation

TL;DR: In this article, it is concluded that the "explicit" or complete penultimate model should be regarded as the base model for the majority of copolymerisation reactions, based on the weight of evidence from the cumulative findings of a diverse range of studies, viz. the determination of average propagation rate coefficients in co and terpolymerisation systems, moderated copolymisation studies, solvent effects studies, ESR studies of model-radicals, and both experimental and theoretical studies of gamma-substituent effects in small-radical addition reactions.
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The nature of the chain-length dependence of the propagation rate coefficient and its effect on the kinetics of free-radical polymerization. 1. Small-molecule studies

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize and analyze the currently available small-molecule data, both experimental and theoretical, that is relevant to chain-length-dependent propagation in free-radical polymerization (FRP).
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