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Stereochemistry of the Free Triarylmethyl Radicals: A Totally Asymmetrical Synthesis

Nature volume 132, page 354 (1933)Cite this article

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THE problem of the steric configuration of the free triarylmethyl radicals is as old as the discovery of the radicals itself. In spite of many attempts, no experimental evidence has been brought until the present to show whether the valencies of the free radical are directed towards the basis of a pyramid or whether they lie on a plane.1

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  1. Wallis, J. Amer. Acad. Sciences, 1929.

  2. G. Karagunis, Dissertation, Freiburg i. B., 1926. “Über Einige asymmetrische Triarylmethyle."

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    G. KARAGUNIS & G. DRIKOS

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KARAGUNIS, G., DRIKOS, G. Stereochemistry of the Free Triarylmethyl Radicals: A Totally Asymmetrical Synthesis. Nature 132, 354 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132354b0

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