Reagents for Radical and Radical Ion Chemistry

"Radicals and radical ions have long surpassed their image as highly reactive, uncontrollable intermediates unsuitable for application in fine chemical synthesis. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the area of stereoselective radical reactions which, as recently as the 1980s, were considered unlikely but which, with improved methods for radical generation, now compete on an equal footing with their more familiar two electron counterparts. Unfortunately, most undergraduate - organic chemistry textbooks still introduce budding chemists to radical reactions through the chlorination of methane, and so convey the erroneous general impression of complex and unselective chemistry. The goal of this Handbook is to illuminate the broad selection of reagents available for open shell reactions, and to illustrate the wide variety of highly selective transformations that may be readily achieved with high degrees of functional group compatibility through their use. Accordingly, it is hoped that the Handbook will stimulate the ever wider use of radical and radical ion-based transformations in synthetic organic chemistry."--BOOK JACKET.

David Crich, BSc, Surrey University, 1981; DEsSc, University of Paris, 1984; Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, 1984-1985; Lecturer, University College, London, 1985-1990; Laureat of the Academy of Sciences (France) 1989; Corday Morgan Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry), 1990; University of Illinois Scholar, 1992; Visiting Professor, University of Aix-Marseille, 1992: Fellow of the A. P. Sloan Foundation, 1994-1996; Tate and Lyle Carbohydrate Chemistry Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry), 1995. Since1997 Distinguished Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since 2001 on the Editorial Board of e-EROS.