Ww. Weng et Ty. Luh, TANDEM RADICAL [2- REMARKABLE SILYL SUBSTITUENT EFFECT ON THE CHEMOSELECTIVITY OF THE RADICAL CYCLIZATION REACTIONS(1] CYCLOADDITION ), Journal of organic chemistry, 58(21), 1993, pp. 5574-5575
Tandem radical cyclization of bromides 1 with Bu3SnH is extremely sens
itive to the nature of the substituent on the diene moiety. Bicyclo[3.
1.0] skeleton 3 is obtained in the presence of the silyl substituent.
The tert-butyl substituent gives exclusively six-membered ring product
s 15. Tributyltin radical addition to the double bond becomes predomin
ant when the substituent is phenyl.