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  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
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Ring-Expansion/Contraction Radical Crossover Reactions of Cyclic Alkoxyamines: A Mechanism for Ring Expansion-Controlled Radical Polymerization

  • Atsushi Narumi,
  • Tetsuya Kobayashi,
  • Masatsugu Yamada,
  • Wolfgang H. Binder,
  • Keigo Matsuda,
  • Montaser Shaykoon Ahmed Shaykoon,
  • Kazushi Enomoto,
  • Moriya Kikuchi and
  • Seigou Kawaguchi

8 June 2018

Macrocyclic polymers present an important class of macromolecules, displaying the reduced radius of gyration or impossibility to entangle. A rare approach for their synthesis is the ring expansion-controlled radical “vinyl” polymerization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,273 Views
16 Pages

RadicalRetro: A Deep Learning-Based Retrosynthesis Model for Radical Reactions

  • Jiangcheng Xu,
  • Jun Dong,
  • Kui Du,
  • Wenwen Liu,
  • Jiehai Peng and
  • Wenbo Yu

5 June 2025

With the rapid development of radical initiation technologies such as photocatalysis and electrocatalysis, radical reactions have become an increasingly attractive approach for constructing target molecules. However, designing efficient synthetic rou...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
12,967 Views
51 Pages

Radical Reactions in Organic Synthesis: Exploring in-, on-, and with-Water Methods

  • Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu,
  • Sebastian Barata-Vallejo and
  • Thanasis Gimisis

23 January 2024

Radical reactions in water or aqueous media are important for organic synthesis, realizing high-yielding processes under non-toxic and environmentally friendly conditions. This overview includes (i) a general introduction to organic chemistry in wate...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
11,204 Views
33 Pages

New Advances in Titanium-Mediated Free Radical Reactions

  • Bianca Rossi,
  • Simona Prosperini,
  • Nadia Pastori,
  • Angelo Clerici and
  • Carlo Punta

11 December 2012

Titanium complexes have been widely used as catalysts for C‑C bond-forming processes via free-radical routes. Herein we provide an overview of some of the most significant contributions in the field, that covers the last decade, emphasizing the key r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,293 Views
14 Pages

Establishing Thermodynamic Graphs of Nitrogenous Radical Cations Abstracting Hydrogen Atoms and Their Applications in Photoredox Reactions

  • Xia Zhao,
  • Yi-Lin Hou,
  • Jun Yang,
  • Xin-Hua Wang,
  • Chong-Shan Hu,
  • Xiao-Qing Zhu and
  • Guang-Bin Shen

21 January 2025

Nitrogenous compounds have been extensively utilized as hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) catalysts in photoredox reactions, with nitrogenous radical cations being the actual hydrogen atom abstractors. Building upon our previous work, 120 thermodynamic gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,495 Views
32 Pages

22 March 2024

Secondary reactions in radical polymerization pose a challenge when creating kinetic models for predicting polymer structures. Despite the high impact of these reactions in the polymer structure, their effects are difficult to isolate and measure to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,952 Views
20 Pages

Thioxanthone-Based Siloxane Photosensitizer for Cationic/Radical Photopolymerization and Photoinduced Sol–Gel Reactions

  • Thi-Thanh-Tam Nguyen,
  • Louise Breloy,
  • Agustin Rios De Anda,
  • Hassan Hayek,
  • Annalisa Chiappone,
  • Jean-Pierre Malval,
  • Daniel Grande and
  • Davy-Louis Versace

3 January 2024

In this investigation, a multifunctional visible-light TX-based photosensitizer containing a siloxane moiety (TXS) was designed with a good overall yield of 54%. The addition of a siloxane moiety enabled the incorporation of a TX photosensitizer into...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,906 Views
16 Pages

20 February 2025

Recently, the radical ring-opening polymerization of cyclic monomers has become one of the most important topics because it can impart degradability to vinyl polymers by introducing functional groups and heteroatoms into the main chain through copoly...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,184 Views
29 Pages

15 October 2024

The exhaustion of conventional light oils necessitates the shift towards unconventional sources such as biomass, heavy oil, oil shale, and coal. Non-catalytic thermal cracking by a free radical mechanism is at the heart of the upgrading, prior to ref...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,430 Views
10 Pages

Revealing the Intrinsic Correlation between Cu Scales and Free Radical Chain Reactions in the Regulation of Catalytic Behaviour

  • Haifeng Zhang,
  • Zilong Zhang,
  • Jingyi Yan,
  • Siyang Wang,
  • Xubin Huang,
  • Fangmin Zuo,
  • Ao Li,
  • Fengkai Gao,
  • Haidan Lin and
  • Bolin Wang

3 October 2024

Defining the copper-based catalysts that are responsible for the catalytic behaviour of oil-paper insulation systems and implementing effective regulation are of great significance. Accelerated ageing experiments were conducted to reveal variations i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,852 Views
38 Pages

Radical-Mediated Trifunctionalization Reactions

  • Qiang Zhang,
  • Xiaoming Ma,
  • Sanjun Zhi and
  • Wei Zhang

31 July 2024

Synthetic radicals have intrinsic power for cascading and multifunctional reactions to construct diverse molecular scaffolds. In the previous review series, we covered 1,2-difunctionalizations, remote 1,3-, 1,4-, 1,5-, 1,6-, and 1,7-difunctionalizati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,368 Views
18 Pages

30 August 2023

In this mini-review, we present our concepts for designing multicomponent reactions with reference to a series of sequential radical reactions that we have developed. Radical reactions are well suited for the design of multicomponent reactions due to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,549 Views
17 Pages

Reaction with ROO• and HOO• Radicals of Honokiol-Related Neolignan Antioxidants

  • Nunzio Cardullo,
  • Filippo Monti,
  • Vera Muccilli,
  • Riccardo Amorati and
  • Andrea Baschieri

11 January 2023

Honokiol is a natural bisphenol neolignan present in the bark of Magnolia officinalis, whose extracts have been employed in oriental medicine to treat several disorders, showing a variety of biological properties, including antitumor activity, potent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,769 Views
18 Pages

11 August 2015

The chlorothiophenoxy radicals (CTPRs) are key intermediate species in the formation of polychlorinated dibenzothiophenes/thianthrenes (PCDT/TAs). In this work, the formation of CTPRs from the complete series reactions of 19 chlorothiophenol (CTP)...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,976 Views
46 Pages

28 March 2023

Radical transformations are powerful in organic synthesis for the construction of molecular scaffolds and introduction of functional groups. In radical difunctionalization reactions, the radicals in the first functionalized intermediates can be reloc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,378 Views
18 Pages

Effect of Surface Reaction on the Distribution Characteristics of Temperature and OH Radicals in Microchannel Combustion

  • Xiuquan Li,
  • Dugang Kang,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Jie Chen,
  • Song Huang,
  • Qunfeng Zou and
  • Ziqiang He

27 February 2024

Microchannel burners suffer from low combustion efficiency and poor stability in applications. In order to explore the effect of wall reaction on methane/air premixed combustion performances in the microchannel, the effects of wall activity, inlet ve...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,945 Views
57 Pages

Radical reactions are powerful in the synthesis of diverse molecular scaffolds bearing functional groups. In previous review articles, we have presented 1,2-difunctionalizations, remote 1,3-, 1,4-, 1,5-, 1,6- and 1,7-difunctionalizations, and additio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,013 Views
20 Pages

21 March 2023

As a starting channel, the H-intermigration reaction of alkylperoxy radicals (ROO radicals) that yields hydroperoxyl alkyl radicals (QOOH radicals) determines the low-temperature chemistry of alkanes. In this work, this type of reaction was investiga...

  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
22 Citations
13,129 Views
5 Pages

20 February 2023

Consideration of the changes in free energy shows that the assumed initial steps in reactions of H2O2 with Fe2+ and Fe3+ in the free radical theory are not consistent. The free radical theory is unable to account for the Fe3+-initiated decomposition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,572 Views
21 Pages

14 September 2023

The concerted elimination reaction class of peroxyl-hydroperoxyl alkyl radicals (•OOQOOH) plays a crucial role in the low-temperature combustion of normal-alkyl cyclohexanes. The generation of the relatively unreactive HO2 radicals in this react...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,749 Views
128 Pages

Recent Advances in the Enantioselective Radical Reactions

  • Tomasz Bauer,
  • Yusuf Zaim Hakim and
  • Paulina Morawska

25 August 2023

The review covers research published since 2017 and is focused on enantioselective synthesis using radical reactions. It describes recent approaches to the asymmetric synthesis of chiral molecules based on the application of the metal catalysis, dual...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,454 Views
16 Pages

28 November 2019

Free radical pathways play a major role in the degradation of protein pharmaceuticals. Inspired by biochemical reactions carried out by thiyl radicals in various enzymatic processes, this review focuses on the role of thiyl radicals in pharmaceutical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,668 Views
7 Pages

27 February 2022

In this study, transition state energy and atomic charge were calculated using the Gaussian 09 program with focus on three-ring PAHs, such as acenaphthylene and anthracene, which are most likely found in contaminated sites. The calculation results we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,110 Views
14 Pages

9 December 2019

Nitrophenols, hazardous environmental pollutants, react promptly with atmospheric oxidants such as hydroxyl or nitrate radicals. This work aimed to estimate how fast nitrophenols are removed from the atmosphere by the aqueous-phase reactions with sul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,116 Views
9 Pages

Transition-Metal-Free Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Diaryl Tellurides via SH2 Reaction of Aryl Radicals on Tellurium

  • Yuki Yamamoto,
  • Fumiya Sato,
  • Qiqi Chen,
  • Shintaro Kodama,
  • Akihiro Nomoto and
  • Akiya Ogawa

26 January 2022

Although diaryl tellurides are parent organotellurium compounds, their synthesis methods, especially for unsymmetrical ones, are limited. This may be due to the instability of diaryl tellurides and their synthesis intermediates under reaction conditi...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,961 Views
9 Pages

10 November 2021

We have developed a photochemical ATRA/ATRC reaction that is mediated by halogen bonding interactions. This reaction is caused by the reaction of malonic acid ester derivatives containing bromine or iodine with unsaturated compounds such as alkenes a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,302 Views
20 Pages

New Insights into the Reaction Paths of Hydroxyl Radicals with Purine Moieties in DNA and Double-Stranded Oligodeoxynucleotides

  • Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu,
  • Marios G. Krokidis,
  • Annalisa Masi,
  • Sebastian Barata-Vallejo,
  • Carla Ferreri,
  • Michael A. Terzidis,
  • Tomasz Szreder and
  • Krzysztof Bobrowski

26 October 2019

The reaction of hydroxyl radical (HO•) with DNA produces many primary reactive species and many lesions as final products. In this study, we have examined the optical spectra of intermediate species derived from the reaction of HO• with a v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,286 Views
11 Pages

22 December 2023

The free radical trapping capacities of multiple pyranoanthocyanins in wine storage and ageing were theoretically explored by density functional theory (DFT) methods. Intramolecular hydrogen bonds were detected in all pyranoanthocyanins, and the plan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,662 Views
16 Pages

27 March 2020

The free radical copolymerization of electron-acceptor and electron-donor vinyl monomers represents a particular case of sequence-controlled polymerization. The reactions of maleic anhydride (MA) or related compounds (acceptor comonomers) with &alpha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,641 Views
7 Pages

15 May 1997

Two 1,3,8,10-undecatetraenes were synthesized to test the viability of the intramolecular radical cation induced Diels-Alder reaction in the diene - diene format. Cyclization was successful only for the substituted tetraene with the lower oxidation p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
11,431 Views
31 Pages

17 September 2015

Throughout the last 25 years, computational chemistry based on quantum mechanics has been applied to the investigation of reaction kinetics in free radical polymerization (FRP) with growing interest. Nowadays, quantum chemistry (QC) can be considered...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
10,434 Views
14 Pages

Reaction of 2,2-Diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl with HO•, O2•, HO ,and HOO Radicals and Anions

  • Elena N. Hristeac,
  • Miron T. Caproiu,
  • Gabriela Pencu,
  • Mihaela Hillebrand,
  • Titus Constantinescu and
  • Alexandru T. Balaban

15 May 2006

Using electronic absorption spectra and thin layer chromatography, the reactionof 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) with O2•–, HO•, HO–, and HOO– anions and freeradicals revealed the formation of the para-nitro- and para-hydroxy-derivatives of 2,2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,194 Views
11 Pages

Diarylbibenzofuranone-Based Dynamic Covalent Polymer Gels Prepared via Radical Polymerization and Subsequent Polymer Reaction

  • Keiichi Imato,
  • Masamichi Nishihara,
  • Atsushi Irie,
  • Atsushi Takahara and
  • Hideyuki Otsuka

3 July 2015

Diarylbibenzofuranone (DABBF) is a dynamic covalent bonding unit, which is in equilibrium with the corresponding radicals at room temperature, and polymers with DABBF linkages show notable properties such as self-healing. The preparation routes have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,241 Views
13 Pages

Dimeric Product of Peroxy Radical Self-Reaction Probed with VUV Photoionization Mass Spectrometry and Theoretical Calculations: The Case of C2H5OOC2H5

  • Hao Yue,
  • Cuihong Zhang,
  • Xiaoxiao Lin,
  • Zuoying Wen,
  • Weijun Zhang,
  • Sabah Mostafa,
  • Pei-Ling Luo,
  • Zihao Zhang,
  • Patrick Hemberger and
  • Xiaofeng Tang
  • + 1 author

13 February 2023

Organic peroxy radicals (RO2) as key intermediates in tropospheric chemistry exert a controlling influence on the cycling of atmospheric reactive radicals and the production of secondary pollutants, such as ozone and secondary organic aerosols (SOA)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
256 Citations
20,879 Views
26 Pages

Radical Intermediates in Photoinduced Reactions on TiO2 (An EPR Spin Trapping Study)

  • Dana Dvoranová,
  • Zuzana Barbieriková and
  • Vlasta Brezová

28 October 2014

The radical intermediates formed upon UVA irradiation of titanium dioxide suspensions in aqueous and non-aqueous environments were investigated applying the EPR spin trapping technique. The results showed that the generation of reactive species and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,271 Views
20 Pages

18 January 2021

Novel flower-shaped C-dots/Co3O4{111} with dual-reaction centers were constructed to improve the Fenton-like reaction activity and peroxymonosulfate (PMS) conversion to sulfate radicals. Due to the exposure of a high surface area and Co3O4{111} facet...

  • Review
  • Open Access
147 Citations
14,782 Views
16 Pages

We report on studies of reactions of singlet oxygen with carotenoids and retinoids and a range of free radical studies on carotenoids and retinoids with emphasis on recent work, dietary carotenoids and the role of oxygen in biological processes. Many...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,534 Views
57 Pages

23 January 2023

Radical reactions are powerful in creating carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bonds. Designing one-pot radical reactions with cascade transformations to assemble the cyclic skeletons with two new functional groups is both synthetically a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,084 Views
25 Pages

Method of Moments Applied to Most-Likely High-Temperature Free-Radical Polymerization Reactions

  • Hossein Riazi,
  • Ahmad Arabi Shamsabadi,
  • Michael C. Grady,
  • Andrew M. Rappe and
  • Masoud Soroush

26 September 2019

Many widely-used polymers are made via free-radical polymerization. Mathematical models of polymerization reactors have many applications such as reactor design, operation, and intensification. The method of moments has been utilized extensively for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,079 Views
25 Pages

22 January 2024

Chemical kinetic studies of the β-scission reaction class of hydroperoxyl alkyl hydroperoxyl radicals (•P(OOH)2) from normal-alkyl cyclohexanes are carried out systematically through high-level ab initio calculations. Geometry optimizations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,260 Views
7 Pages

18 April 2000

The synthesis of a water soluble azo initiators from 2,2’-azodiisobutyronitrile (AIBN) was performed in three steps: reaction of dinitrile with aromatic alcohols in the presence of HCl to form bisiminoesters hydrochlorides which are hydrolyzed to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,184 Views
19 Pages

22 July 2025

The DFT method was used to evaluate the adsorption of methyl radicals and the evolution of ethane on the M(111) (M = Co, Ni, Pd, Pt) surfaces, eight metal atoms, in aqueous medium. A maximum of five and four radicals can be adsorbed on Co(111) and Ni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,127 Views
11 Pages

Antioxidant Capacity of Free and Peptide Tryptophan Residues Determined by the ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) Assay Is Modulated by Radical-Radical Reactions and Oxidation Products

  • Juan David Figueroa,
  • Noreima Barroso-Torres,
  • Marcela Morales,
  • Bárbara Herrera,
  • Mario Aranda,
  • Eva Dorta and
  • Camilo López-Alarcón

2 December 2023

The ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) assay is commonly employed for determining the antioxidant capacity of bioactive peptides. To gain insights into the meaning of this index for peptides containing a single Trp, we studied the consumption...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,008 Views
11 Pages

The reaction of alkenes with hydroxyl (OH) radical is of great importance to atmospheric and combustion chemistry. This work used a combined ab initio/transition state theory (TST) method to study the reaction mechanisms and kinetics for hydrogen abs...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,757 Views
11 Pages

Thiolactones have attracted considerable attention in recent years as bioactive natural products, lead compounds for drug discovery, molecular probes, and reagents for polymerisation. We have investigated radical-mediated C-C bond forming reactions a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
410 Views
36 Pages

Hydrazine Derivatives as C-Centered Radical Precursors for C-C Bond Formation Reactions

  • Elena R. Lopat’eva,
  • Igor B. Krylov and
  • Alexander O. Terent’ev

24 December 2025

Organic monosubstituted hydrazine derivatives (Ar-NHNH2, RC(O)-NHNH2, Alkyl-NHNH2) are synthetically available, atom-efficient and stable sources of C-centered radicals upon oxidation with extrusion of the energetically favorable N2 molecule. This re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,205 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2021

Two new photopolymerizable vinyl (2-(allyloxy) 1,4-naphthoquinone, HNQA) and epoxy (2-(oxiran-2yl methoxy) 1,4-naphthoquinone, HNQE) photoinitiators derived from lawsone were designed in this paper. These new photoinitiators can be used as one-compon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,800 Views
19 Pages

A Theoretical Study of NH2 Radical Reactions with Propane and Its Kinetic Implications in NH3-Propane Blends’ Oxidation

  • Binod Raj Giri,
  • Krishna Prasad Shrestha,
  • Tam V.-T. Mai,
  • Sushant Giri,
  • Mohammad Adil,
  • R. Thirumaleswara Naik,
  • Fabian Mauss and
  • Lam Kim Huynh

11 August 2023

The reaction of NH2 radicals with C3H8 is crucial for understanding the combustion behavior of NH3/C3H8 blends. In this study, we investigated the temperature dependence of the rate coefficients for the hydrogen abstraction reactions of C3H8 by NH2 r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,647 Views
21 Pages

The Very First Modification of Pleuromutilin and Lefamulin by Photoinitiated Radical Addition Reactions—Synthesis and Antibacterial Studies

  • Son Thai Le,
  • Dávid Páll,
  • Erzsébet Rőth,
  • Tuyen Tran,
  • Nóra Debreczeni,
  • Miklós Bege,
  • Ilona Bereczki,
  • Eszter Ostorházi,
  • Márton Milánkovits and
  • Magdolna Csávás
  • + 2 authors

Pleuromutilin is a fungal diterpene natural product with antimicrobial properties, semisynthetic derivatives of which are used in veterinary and human medicine. The development of bacterial resistance to pleuromutilins is known to be very slow, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,198 Views
23 Pages

9 January 2020

The Kumar model as a molecular model has achieved successful application. However, only 22 reactions limit its veracity and adaptability for feedstocks. A series of models with different degrees of integration of the free radical model and the molecu...

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