Over the last two decades, free-radical chemistry has increasingly attracted the attention of organic chemists, result - ing in the development of new efficient tools to achieve functional group transformation as well as carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bond formation. The methods that have come from this work have found numerous applications in organic synthesis. Recently, the group of Professor Jacques Lebreton from the University of Nantes (France) published a novel methodology based on the use of free radicals generated from α-bromo aluminum acetals, which holds remarkable potential for organic synthesis.

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