Free radicals are notorious for unselective coupling reactions; however, the coupling of free radicals generated from acyl tellurides has now been shown to form C–C bonds with remarkable fidelity, which enables easy one-step assembly of densely oxygenated natural product motifs.
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Zhang, W., Li, A. A radical step forward. Nature Chem 9, 198–199 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2734
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