Diacyl peroxides allylic oxidation

The dependence of relative rates in radical addition reactions on the nucleophilicity of the attacking radical has also been demonstrated by Minisci and coworkers (Table 7)17. The evaluation of relative rate constants was in this case based on the product analysis in reactions, in which substituted alkyl radicals were first generated by oxidative decomposition of diacyl peroxides, then added to a mixture of two alkenes, one of them the diene. The final products were obtained by oxidation of the intermediate allyl radicals to cations which were trapped with methanol. The data for the acrylonitrile-butadiene... 

The Kharasch-Sosnovsky reaction may be carried out in the presence of carboxylic acids to introduce the acyloxy moiety of the acid used, and may also be conducted photochemically at room temperature using UV irradiation. Peioxy acids,diacyl peroxides, and peroxyphosphates and peroxyphospho-nates are alternative oxidants. /-Butyl hydroperoxide may also be used in place of peroxy esters with broadly similar results, although formations of mixed peroxides and /-butyl ethers can then compete with allyl ester production. 

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