D. Barton, D. Doller, N. Ozbalik
1990
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Tetrahedron Letters
Abstract
Abstract The oxidation of 3-ethylpentane under Gif IV (and GoAgg II ) conditions affords, as major product, 3-acetylpentane and not diethylketone as previously reported. The discrepancy is explained by radical chain autoxidation in presence of a weak tertiary CH bond.