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The controlled oxygenation of ethylzinc complexed with a tridentate pyrroloimine leads to an unprecedented transformation of the resulting ethylperoxide into an acetate. The zinc acetate appears to form without involvement of redox-active metal centers by a combination of OO bond activation and multiple rearrangements of ZnO. and .OEt radical species.
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Lewiński et al. (2009) studied this question.
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