Jm. Tanko et Le. Brammer, UTILIZATION OF HYL-4,6-DI-TERT-BUTYLSPIRO[2,5]OCTA-3,6-DIEN-5-ONE AS A HYPERSENSITIVE PROBE FOR SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSFER TO CARBONYL-COMPOUNDS, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (10), 1994, pp. 1165-1166
The use of hyl-4,6-di-tert-butylspiro[2,5]octa-3,6-dien-5-one 1 as a '
hypersensitive' probe for single electron transfer in the reaction of
several nucleophiles (RMgX, RLi and R(2)CuLi) with carbonyl compounds
is demonstrated.