First characterisation of enol carbonate and enol carbamate radical cations in solution. Kinetics and selectivity of the mesolytic cleavage of the O-CO bond

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1997.299

For the first time enol carbonate and enol carbamate radical cations are characterised in solution by CV and EPR; the sterically congested radical cations undergo an unprecedented mesolytic cleavage of the O-CO bond, the kinetics of which are determined.