New Progress in Organic Synthesis through Organic Electron Transfer Chemistry

This review consists of a number of highly selective and useful new organic synthetic reactions, which are characteristic with particular and selective reactivities and behaviors of radical ions intermediates, generated by transfer of one electron between organic molecule and electrodes, magnesium metal. Those reactions are also quite difficult or almost impossible to realize through usual carbocation, carbanion or radical intermediates, and may be classified as one of new fields, namely "Organic Synthesis by Organic Electron Transfer Chemistry".