Reactivities of radical cations: Characterization of styrene radical cations and measurements of their reactivity toward nucleophiles

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00068a013

A variety of substituted styrene radical cations (2) have been generated by 266-or 308-nm photoionization of the parent olefin in polar solvents or by electron-transfer quenching of triplet chloranil. The rate constant for decay of most of the radical cat