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ContentsI. Introduction 3273 II. Rearrangements 3275 A. β-(Acyloxy)alkyl Rearrangement 3275 1. Esters 3275 2. Lactones 3280 3. Thiocarbonyl Esters 3280 B. β-(Phosphatoxy)alkyl Rearrangement 3282 C. β-(Nitroxy)alkyl and β-(Sulfonatoxy)alkyl Rearrangements 3285 D. (Acyloxyalkyl)silyl Radical Rearrangement 3285 III. Fragmentation Reactions 3286 A. β-(Acyloxy)alkyl Radicals and Their Thiocarbonyl Analogues 3286 B. β-(Phosphatoxy)alkyl Radicals 3288 1. Anaerobic Conditions 3288 2. Aerobic Conditions 3293 C. β-(Sulfonatoxy)alkyl and Related Radicals 3294 IV. Mechanism 3294 A. β-(Ester)alkyl Radicals Susceptible to Neither Rearrangement Nor Fragmentation 3294 B. Fragmentation Reactions 3295 C. Rearrangement Reactions 3295 1. Noncage Dissociative Pathways 3296 2. Stepwise Pathways via Five-Membered Cyclic Intermediate Radicals 3296 3. Use of Isotopic and Stereochemical Labeling as Probes of Mechanism 3296 4. Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships 3298 5. Computational Studies and ESR Considerations 3299 V. Overview of β-(Ester)alkyl Radical Reactions 3303 VI. Related Reactions Involving Radical C−O Bond Shift and Cleavage 3305 A. Rearrangement and Fragmentation of β-Hydroxyalkyl Radicals 3305 B. Schenck or Allylperoxy Radical Rearrangement 3307 C. β-(Vinyloxy)alkyl to 4-Ketobutyl Rearrangement 3308 VII. Acknowledgments 3309 VIII. References 3309 Scheme 6

The fate of intermediate π radicals is crucial in Bu3SnH‐mediated cyclization by homolytic aromatic substitution, for example, of bromo compound 1 via radical 2 to give oxindole 3 (AIBN=azobisisobutyronitrile). The results indicate that the mechanism requires the abstraction of a hydrogen radical from the intermediate π radical by the radical initiator or a product of initiator breakdown, and also that arene solvents are not always the best solvents for radical reactions.

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Correlations of various indices of the stability and reactivity of carbon-centered radicals with ESR hyperfine splitting constants have been examined. For a large number of mono-and disubstituted radicals there is a moderately good linear correlation of a-proton hyperfine splitting constants (a(Ha)) with radical stabilization enthalpies (RSE) and with BDE(C-H), the C-H bond dissociation energies for the corresponding parent compounds determined from thermodynamic and kinetic studies of C-C homolysis reactions. There is a similarly satisfactory linear correlation of a(H a) with BDE-(C-H) determined by Bordwell's electrochemical and acidity function method. In all cases the correlations fail for nonplanar radicals. As expected, j3-proton hyperfine splitting constants (a(H,Me)) for radicals with a freely rotating methyl substituent are less sensitive to deviations from planarity and give better linear correlations with RSE and BDE(C-H). The correlations cover a range of more than 20 kcal/mol and are reliable predictors of RSE and BDE(C-H) for a variety of radicals including captodative species. However, the correlations fail for significantly nonplanar radicals and for radicals with cyclic delocalized systems, e.g., cyclopentadienyl. The ratio a(HfiMe)/ a(Ha) for suitably substituted radicals provides an index of pyramidalization and allows one to decide for which compounds values of RSE and BDE(C-H) can be confidently estimated.

This article discusses and compares various methods for defining and measuring radical stability, including the familiar radical stabilization energy (RSE), along with some lesser-known alternatives based on corrected carbon-carbon bond energies, and more direct measures of the extent of radical delocalisation. As part of this work, a large set of R-H, R-CH(3), R-Cl and R-R BDEs (R = CH(2)X, CH(CH(3))X, C(CH(3))(2)X and X = H, BH(2), CH(3), NH(2), OH, F, SiH(3), PH(2), SH, Cl, Br, N(CH(3))(2), NHCH(3), NHCHO, NHCOCH(3), NO(2), OCF(3), OCH(2)CH(3), OCH(3), OCHO, OCOCH(3), Si(CH(3))(3), P(CH(3))(2), SC(CH(3))(2)CN, SCH(2)COOCH(3), SCH(2)COOCH(3), SCH(2)Ph, SCH(3), SO(2)CH(3), S(O)CH(3), Ph, C(6)H(4)-pCN, C(6)H(4)-pNO(2), C(6)H(4)-pOCH(3), C(6)H(4)-pOH, CF(2)CF(3), CF(2)H, CF(3), CCl(2)H, CCl(3), CH(2)Cl, CH(2)F, CH(2)OH, CH(2)Ph, cyclo-CH(CH(2))(2), CH(2)CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH(2), CH(2)CH(3), CH(CH(3))(2), C(CH(3))(3), C[triple bond, length as m-dash]CH, CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH(2), CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CHCH(3), CHO, CN, COCH(3), CON(CH(2)CH(3))(2), CONH(2), CONHCH(3), COOC(CH(3))(3), COOCH(2)CH(3), COOCH(3), COOH, COPh), and associated radical stability values are calculated using the high-level ab initio molecular orbital theory method G3(MP2)-RAD. These are used to compare the alternative radical stability schemes and illustrate principal structure-reactivity trends.