Tetrathiafulvalene as a trigger for sequential radical translocation and functionalisation

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)78470-X

Aryl diazonium salts react with tetrathiafulvalene to generate aryl radicals which undergo intramolecular hydrogen atom abstractions; the radicals which result lead to (a) oxidised product or (b) undergo an unprecedented carbon-carbon bond formation with the radical-cation of tetrathiafulvalene.