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Are Radicals Intermediates in Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions of Trityl Halides with Potassium t-Butoxide ?
Hszthy, Peter,Lemport, Karoly,Simig, Gyula,Tamas, Jozsef
, p. 3419 - 3430 (2007/10/02)
The reaction of trityl bromide (2) with potassium t-butoxide in THF furnished in our hands in addition to the substitution products (4) and (10) , compounds (8) and (9) as well as trimeric and oligomeric fractions.The formation of the non-substitution products requires the intermediacy of trityl radicals.Therefore, the suggestion, found in the literature and based solely on the detection of trityl radicals in the reaction mixtures, that substitution products (3) and (4) are formed by the SET mechanism, does not appear to be well founded.