A quest for stable phosphonyl radicals: limitations and possibilities of carbocyclic backbones and bulky substituents

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52,13930-13945
DOI: 10.1039/D3DT02658B, Paper
Pelin Kaymak, Meng Yang, Zoltán Benkő
Exploring the electronic and steric stabilisation effects reveals that carbocyclic phosphonyl radicals with remarkably delocalised spin distributions and appropriately selected bulky substituents are suitable for synthetic purposes.
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