TY  - JOUR
ID  - pittir18177
UR  - http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/18177/
IS  - 49
A1  - Cohen, T
A1  - Gibney, H
A1  - Ivanov, R
A1  - Yeh, EAH
A1  - Marek, I
A1  - Curran, DP
Y1  - 2007/12/12/
N2  - The cyclizations of a number of terminally unsaturated alkenyl zinc iodides to cyclopentylmethylzinc iodides, formerly believed to be nonradical in nature, have been revealed as radical chain cyclizations initiated by adventitious oxygen. Five cases are presented in which the published carbozincation cis/trans selectivities are essentially the same as those found for the cyclizations of the unsaturated alkyl iodide precursors of the alkylzinc iodides by the iodine atom transfer method at approximately the same temperatures. In addition, it has been found that one of the organozinc cyclizations does not occur in a system in which oxygen has been rigorously excluded. The combined findings strongly suggest that these organozinc cyclizations occur by a zinc radical transfer mechanism rather than by a conventional carbometallation that is thought to occur with the analogous organolithium and organomagnesium cyclizations. © 2007 American Chemical Society.
JF  - Journal of the American Chemical Society
VL  - 129
SN  - 0002-7863
TI  - Intramolecular carbozincation of unactivated alkenes occurs through a zinc radical transfer mechanism
SP  - 15405 
AV  - public
EP  -  15409
ER  -