Martin Newcomb and co-workers at University of Illinois in Chicago talk about absolute kinetic studies of cyclizations of two α-hydroxy substituted radicals that can serve as radical clocks.
Read more about this ‘excellent piece of work’ as highlighted by the referees in this HOT article that will be free to access until the 14th December.
This paper is part of a collection of papers on radical chemistry that will be published shortly in OBC. Watch out for this web themed issue coming soon.
Rate constants for cyclizations of α-hydroxy radical clocks
Christopher B. DeZutter, John H. Horner and Martin Newcomb
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00588F
