Homolytic fragmentations of benzyl methyl substituted-benzyl carbinyloxy radicals and the related reactions: Limitations of the Leffler-Hammond postulate and reactivity/selectivity principle

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00086a008

Photolyses of benzyl methyl substituted-benzyl carbinyl hypochlorites produced the corresponding carbinyloxy radicals, which undergo fragmentations. Oxidations of 1-aryl-2,3-diphenylpropan-2-ols by ceric ammonium nitrate also proceeded through quite simil