Encyclopedia of Radicals in Chemistry, Biology and Materials

Free radical chemistry contributes to the modern chemists’ toolbox in ways that were unimaginable only a few decades ago. There can be no doubt that the construction of carbocyclic and heterocyclic ring systems through the intramolecular addition of alkyl, aryl, and other radicals to unsaturated functionalities is a major contribution to synthetic methodology; this chemistry is the topic of other contributions to this collective work.