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A New Organic Radical Reaction involving No Free Valence

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THE discovery of a fundamentally new type of organic radical reactions involving no unpaired electron has been already reported1–3. The work recorded here was concerned with a reaction between a free radical, triacetone-aminoxyl and the Grignard reagent. The reaction proceeding with conservation of free valence yielded a new organic free radical with a hydroxyl group:

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  1. Rozantzev, E. G., Mamedova, Yu. G., and Neiman, M. B., Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Otdel. Khim. Nauk, No. 12, 2250 (1962).

  2. Neiman, M. B., Rozantzev, E. G., and Mamedova, Yu. G., Nature, 196, 472 (1962).

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NEIMAN, M., ROZANTZEV, E. & MAMEDOVA, Y. A New Organic Radical Reaction involving No Free Valence. Nature 200, 256 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200256a0

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