Vv. Pinyaskin et al., MNDO 3 STUDY OF THE RELATIVE REACTIVITY OF ETHYLENE DERIVATIVES UPON ADDITION TO THE BENZYL RADICAL/, Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, 41(7), 1992, pp. 1301-1303
The transition states for the addition of a benzyl radical to substitu
ted ethylenes CH2 = CHX were determined by the MNDO/3 method, where X
= H, CF3, CN, CH3, C4H9, C(CH3)3, CO2CH3, and Si(CH3)3. The activation
energies of the forward and back reactions were determined.