Evidence for Single Electron Transfer in the Reduction of Organic Halides by Lithium Triethylborohydride

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00197a036

Product studies involving the reduction of cyclizable alkyl iodides and bromides, trapping of intermediate radicals by dicyclohexylphosphine, and direct EPR observation of radicals have been used to detect the occurence of a single electron transfer pathway in the reduction of these halides by lithium triethylborohydride.