
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Serelis, Algirdas K. 
T1  - <i>Corrigendum to</I>: Athelstan L. J. Beckwith and the Flowering of Hex-5-enyl Radical Cyclization Chemistry. The Adelaide Years
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 2011
VL  - 64
IS  - 11
SP  - 1538
EP  - 1538
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH11068_CO 
N2  - 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. 
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