Alkyl halides radical, cobalt-mediated

As described earlier carbon-centered radicals can be efficiently generated by homolysis of an alkylcobalt(III) species. This species can be synthesized by a reductive process from an alkyl halide and a nucleophilic Co(I) reagent [1-6). This chapter describes the recent advances in cobalt-initiated carbon-centered free radicals (generated via a reductive process) in organic synthesis. The cobalt-mediated free-radical reactions generated via this protocol can be broadly divided into the following two categories. 

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