Some aspects of radical chemistry in the assembly of complex molecular architectures

• Béatrice Quiclet-Sire and
• Samir Z. Zard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 557–576, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.61

• processes. Keywords: amidyls; iminyls; radical allylation; radical vinylation; xanthate transfer; Introduction Natural products exhibit an astonishing diversity of molecular architectures and structural complexity. This has spurred the development of numerous synthetic strategies for the rapid assembly of

• creation of C–N bonds and for the synthesis of alkaloids is enormous [6]. One possible explanation is the lack, hitherto, of mild yet general methods for the generation of the various types of nitrogen radicals: aminyls, aminiums, iminyls, amidyls, carbamyls, ureidyls, etc. We discovered some years ago