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Mild, visible light-mediated decarboxylation of aryl carboxylic acids to access aryl radicals

Lisa Candish, Matthias Freitag, Tobias Gensch, Frank Glorius

Chemical Science · 2017 · 174 citations · 46 references

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Abstract

formation of an acyl hypobromite is proposed to prevent unproductive hydrogen atom abstraction and trapping of the intermediate aroyloxy radical, enabling mild decarboxylation.

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