“…It was thought that a protic chiral solvent might influence the geometry of the free radical addition complex. In t h s point of view, we found earlier that optically active copolymer was obtained by the radical copolymerization of styrene with maleic anhydride in Q-menthol (6). Thus, with a hope to find the additional example of asymmetric induction in a free radical addition, the reaction of cyclohexanone with 2-octene was carried out in P-menthol using benzoyl peroxide as the radical initiator, and indeed an asymmetric induction was found to occur.…”