Review Lecture - Electron transfer reactions and living polymers

Abstract

I propose to review here two aspects of our work concerned with the chemistry of radical-ions, electron-transfer processes and living polymers. The last topic will be described first (§§ 1 to 5) and the remaining part of the paper (§§ 6 to 9 ) will be devoted to problems of electron-transfer processes involving stable and labile radical-ions and to the discussion of some intermediates formed in these reactions.