Homoanomeric effect in the 1,2-dimethoxyethyl radical

Henry, David; Beckmann, Annalise; Radom, Leo

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Homoanomeric effect in the 1,2-dimethoxyethyl radical

Date

2003

Authors

Henry, David

Beckmann, Annalise

Radom, Leo

Publisher

CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

A homoanomeric effect is found to stabilize the 1,2-dimethoxyethyl radical (CH3O-C•H-CH2OCH3) in a conformation in which the singly-occupied orbital at the radical centre is approximately coplanar with the p-type lone pair on the α-oxygen and with the