Chatgilialoglu 2 Reducing Agents

C. Chatgilialoglu, Organosilanes as radical-based reducing agents in synthesis, Acc. Chem. Res. 25 188 (1992). 

C. Chatgilialoglu, Silanes as new reducing agents in organic synthesis, in Free Radicals in Synthesis and Biology, F. Minisci, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1989, pp. 115-123. 

M. Ballestri, C. Chatgilialoglu, and G. Seconi, (MOjSiljSiSH A new radical-based reducing agent, 5. Organomet. Chem, 408 C1-C4 (1991). 

One of the propagation steps in Scheme 1 is the hydrogen abstraction from the reducing agent by a radical. In a recent review Chatgilialoglu and Newcomb reported on the reaction kinetics of silicon, germanium and tin hydrides with radicals [12]. 

Ballestri, B., Chatgilialoglu and Seconi, G. (1991) (TMS)3SiSH A new Radical-Based Reducing Agent, J. Organomet. Chem. 408, C1-C4. 

Chatgilialoglu C (2008) (Me3Si)3SiH twenty years after its discovery as a radical-based reducing agent. Chem Eur J 14 2310... 

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