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An iron-catalyzed decarboxylative olefination of unstrained carbon-carbon bonds via alkoxyl radical induced C-C bond cleavage is presented. This protocol features mild conditions (room temperature, redox-neutral), good substrate scope and functional group compatibility, as well as excellent stereoselectivity, thus providing a facile access to the distal alkenyl ketones.

We report the first example of oxazoline-/copper-catalyzed alcohol oxidation to generate the alkoxyl radical under additive-free conditions. The resulting alkoxyl radical addition to alkene enables useful C-O bond-forming and selective C(sp3)-C(sp3) radical-radical dimerization/radical-trapping reactions, providing direct access to the 3a,3a'-bisfuro[2,3-b]indoline scaffold for the first time and a wide range of 3-alkoxyl furoindolines with high efficiency.

The generation and fate of 2,3,6-icosa-O-methyl-β-cyclomaltoheptaos-6-O-yl radical under reductive conditions is described. Two radical cascade reactions are involved: the main one is triggered by a 1,8-HAT of the hydrogen at 5C. The radical can reach the anomeric hydrogen at 1C three sugar units ahead using a six-step sequence. The different hydrogen donor ability of the group 14 hydrides permits one to selectively stop the cascade at 5C, 2C, and 4C to obtain β-CD with a β-l-Idop unit, acyclic hepta-, and hexa-saccharide structures, respectively., Financial support by the Investigation Programs of theMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (No. CTQ2010-18244), Fundación CajaCanarias (No. 2015-BIO08) and the Gobierno de Canarias (No. ProID2017010017) is acknowledged.

A new general methodology for the synthesis of chiral vinylphosphonate and vinylphosphine oxide carbohydrate derivatives has been developed using the anomeric alkoxyl radical fragmentation reaction as the key step. The synthetic sequence proceeded via β-iodophosphonate and β-iodophosphine oxide intermediates, which may be interesting synthons for the introduction of phosphorus into organic molecules. These vinylphosphonates could be easily transformed into 2-methylene-1-phosphapentofuranoses (3-methylene-1,2-oxaphospholanes) and β-aminophosphonates, isosteres of biologically active α-methylene-γ-lactones and β-amino acids, respectively., This work was supported by the Investigation Programs (CTQ2010-18244 and CTQ2007-67492) of the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and (SolSub20081000192 and ProID20100088) of the Gobierno de Canarias. D.H.-G. thanks the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad for a fellowship.

Complete saturation of a single six-membered ring on fullerene C60 has been achieved. The critical step in this first synthesis of a fully characterized 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexaadduct consisted of a remarkable double 5-exo-trig addition of alkoxyl radicals promoted by lead tetraacetate. Two possible opening pathways ([2 + 2 + 2] retrocycloadditions) for the newly synthesized compound were explored using quantum mechanical calculations. We found that the oxa bridges in the hexaadduct prevent ring opening through the retro[2 + 2 + 2] mechanism due to the high activation barrier and endothermicity of the reaction.