
%0 Journal Article
%A Serelis, Algirdas K. 
%T <i>Corrigendum to</I>: Athelstan L. J. Beckwith and the Flowering of Hex-5-enyl Radical Cyclization Chemistry. The Adelaide Years
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 2011/11/16
%V 64
%N 11
%P 1538-1538
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH11068_CO
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH11068_CO 
%X Athel Beckwith chose to embark on a career in free radical chemistry at a time when it was largely ignored by all but a small coterie within the broader Organic Chemistry community. Of his many contributions in this area, the mechanistic clarification and exploitation of the cyclization of hex-5-enyl radical-containing systems is undoubtedly the most significant, leading to what is now, in a multitude of variants, a universally-used, powerful, sophisticated, selective, general synthetic methodology. This account revisits and highlights the early studies carried out by the Beckwith group at The University of Adelaide from the late-1960s to 1980, a period when the main breakthroughs in kinetic and mechanistic understanding were made, and the implications for wider synthetic utility in more complex hex-5enyl systems became apparent. 
