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Use of Vanadium Hydrides to Effect Radical Cyclizations

Jack Norton, Mary E. Pulling, and Deborah M. Smith. Columbia University, New York, NY

The vanadium hydrides HV(CO)4(P–P) (P–P = dppm, dppe, dppp, dppb) transfer H• rapidly to the methylene carbon of appropriate 1,6-dienes, and thereby bring about radical cyclizations.