This personal account is mainly focused on the author's involvement in the field of transition metal-catalyzed peroxide based radical reactions. Over the past decades, radical chemistry has flourished and become crucial in contemporary synthetic organic chemistry. Owing to the presence of a single electron in one orbital, radicals are very unstable and react very fast. To carry out desired transformations and to control the side reactions the stabilizations of these radicals is essential. Fortunately, the implementation of a suitable transition metal and peroxide combination into the radical reactions have proved beneficial. Transition metals not only stabilizes the radicals but also protects them from being quenched by undesired homo-coupling or fragmentation. Transition metal-catalyzed radical-radical reactions provide an innovative way for the construction and derivatization of carbocycles and heterocycles. The objective of this review is to give an overview of the construction and derivatization of heterocycles through the lens of radical chemistry, mainly focusing on research work done by our group.

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过渡金属催化过氧化物自由基反应的丰富遗产和光明未来

本篇个人介绍主要是作者在过渡金属催化过氧化物基自由基反应领域的参与。在过去的几十年里，自由基化学蓬勃发展，并在当代合成有机化学中变得至关重要。由于在一个轨道中存在单个电子，自由基非常不稳定并且反应非常快。为了进行所需的转化并控制副反应，这些自由基的稳定化是必不可少的。幸运的是，在自由基反应中实施合适的过渡金属和过氧化物组合已被证明是有益的。过渡金属不仅可以稳定自由基，还可以保护它们不被不希望的均偶联或断裂所淬灭。过渡金属催化的自由基反应为碳环和杂环的构建和衍生化提供了一种创新方式。本综述的目的是从自由基化学的角度概述杂环的构建和衍生化，主要集中在我们小组的研究工作上。