Substituent Effects in Radical Chemistry [Paperback]

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, January 20-24, 19861. A Theoretical Approach to Substituent Effects in radical Chemistry.- 2. Sigma and Pi Effects in Radicals.- 3. The Contrasting Strain Energies of Small Ring Carbon and Silicon Rings. The Relationship with Free Radical Energies.- 4. Allylic and Allenic Capto-dative Stabilization in Nitrogen Centered Free Radicals.- 5. Conformational Preferences in Beta Substituted Ethyl Radicals A Quantitative Analysis of Hyperconjugation, Homoconjugation, d-Orbital and Steric Effects.- 6. Substituent Effects on the Thermochemistry and Electrochemistry of Free Radicals.- 7. Some Applications of ES? Spectroscopy to the Study of Substituent Effects.- 8. Substituent Effects on Absolute Rate Constants and Arrhenius Parameters for the Addition of tert-Butyl Radicals to Alkenes.- 9. Allylic RadicalsAn ESR Spectroscopical Study.- 10. ESR-Spectroscopical Investigation of Capto-dative Substituent Effects in Benzyl Radicals.- 11. The Effect of Substituents on Benzylic Radical ESR Hyperfine Coupling Constants. The ?? Scale Based Upon Spin Delocalization.- 12. Determination of Thermodynamic Stabilisation in Amino-Substituted Alkyl radicals.- 13. Phosphinylhydrazyls R2 NNP(O)L2. Influence of the Phosphinyl Group on the 3-Electron NN Pi Bond.- 14. Substituent Effects on the Dimerization of Vinyl Nitroxides and on the Dissociation of Their Tricyclic Dimers.- 15. Substituent Effects on the CC-Bond Strength.- 16. The Different Recombinations of Diphenyl Methyl Radicals Ph2 C?-R, R = tBu, CN, COOR, COR.- 17. Some Chemistry of Radical Ions.- 18. Substituent Effects on the Methylenecyclopropane Rearrangement. A Probe for Free Radical Effects.- 19. 2-Oxomorpholin-3-yl Radicals.- 20. Azoalkane Decompositions as Measures of Radical Substituent Effects.- 21. Orbital Effects in Carbohydrate Radicals.- 22. ESR-Spectroscopical Investigation of Carbohydrate Radicals in Solution. Radical Stabilization by Beta l#/