“…When a stable radical, 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidyl-1-oxyl (TEMPO), reacting with radical intermediates, was added to the reaction mixture, its ESR signals disappeared in the course of the reaction, suggesting the radical mechanism of the oxidative dissolution of Mn(0) in the benzyl bromide3DMF systems, since the ESR signals of TEMPO do not appear after oxidation of Mn(0) to Mn(II) and reduction of the mixtures with KI in acetate buffer solution [10,11].…”