Greatly attenuated reactivity of nitrile-derived carbon-centered radicals toward oxygen.
Several cyanoalkyl radicals are reported to be unreactive toward oxygen; spin delocalization on nitrogen is proposed to be the most important factor to explain this unusual behaviour.
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Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N6N5.
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Focsaneanu
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