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    • Fu-Sheng He
      Fu-Sheng He
      School of Pharmaceutical and Materials Engineering & Institute for Advanced Studies, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou 318000, China
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    • Shengqing Ye
      Shengqing Ye
      School of Pharmaceutical and Materials Engineering & Institute for Advanced Studies, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou 318000, China
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    • Jie Wu*
      Jie Wu
      School of Pharmaceutical and Materials Engineering & Institute for Advanced Studies, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou 318000, China
      State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China
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    Published August 28, 2019
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    Pyridinium salts are valuable building blocks, which have been widely applied in various organic transformations during the past few decades. In particular, N-functionalized pyridinium salts have been explored as convenient radical precursors, which would go through reductive single-electron transfer. As a result, the chemistry of such pyridinium compounds for generating carbon-, nitrogen-, and oxygen-centered radicals has been witnessed, and a remarkable progress has been achieved, making it a hot topic over the last five years. This Review describes recent advances in the area of pyridinium salts as radical precursors, concerning the development of radical reactions involving pyridinium salts in organic synthesis.

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