Copper(II)-salt-promoted oxidative ring-opening reactions of bicyclic cyclopropanol derivatives via radical pathways

• Eietsu Hasegawa,
• Minami Tateyama,
• Ryosuke Nagumo,
• Eiji Tayama and
• Hajime Iwamoto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1397–1406, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.156

• proposed. Keywords: copper(II) salt; cyclopropanol; electron transfer; free radical; radical ion probe; Introduction Radical ions are key intermediates in electron-transfer (ET) reactions of organic molecules [1][2][3][4][5] and they often undergo fragmentations to yield free radicals and ions [6][7][8