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Electron-Transfer Substitution Reactions: Leaving Groups
Kornblum, Nathan,Ackermann, Peter,Manthey, Joseph W.,Musser, Michael T.,Pinnick, Harold W.,et al.
, p. 1475 - 1481 (2007/10/02)
A number of groups that do not participate in SN2 displacement processes are able to function as leaving groups in electron-transfer chain reactions at room temperature; such groups include azide, sulfone, ethers, nitro, quaternary ammonium ions, esters, and thioethers.Even carbanions are able to function as leaving groups as can be seen from fragmentation of carbon-carbon bonds.
