“…There have been a number of specialist reviews providing comprehensive coverage of various aspects of radical chemistry published over the last five years; topics covered include free-radical cascade processes, 3 the synthesis of heterocycles by radical cyclisations, 4 the synthesis of five-and six-membered heterocycles, 5a,b 5-endo-trig cyclisations, 6 the formation of five-membered rings by translocation-cyclisation, 7 unusual radical cyclisations, 8 radical reactions in aqueous media, 9 the chemistry of ketyl radical anions formed by photoinduced electron transfer, 10 the addition of radicals to C]N bonds, 11,12 'clean' radical reagents, 13 phosphorus-based radical methodology, 14 indium and indium reagents in organic synthesis, 15a,b dichloroindane as a versatile reducing agent, 16 titanocene-mediated radical reactions, 17a,b copper(I)-catalysed atom transfer radical cyclisations, 18 atom transfer radical polymerisations (ATRP), 19a,b samarium(II) iodide in organic synthesis, [20][21][22] samarium(II) iodide in asymmetric synthesis, 23 transition metal generated radicals, 24 cerium regents in synthesis, 25 the persistent radical effect, 26a,b cyclohexa-1,4-diene-based radical reagents, 27 radical additions to aromatic systems, 28 diastereoselective radical reactions, 29a,b enantioselective radical reactions, 30-32 stereoselective conjugate additions. 33,34 radical carbonylations, 35 O-centred radicals in C-O bond formation, 36 inorganic radical reagents, 37 radical chemistry of organoboranes, 38a,b the addition of phosphorus compounds to unactivated hydrocarbons, 39 nitrogen-directed radical rearrangements, 40 thiol-mediated radical cyclisations, 41 the chemistry of N-centred radicals, 42 chirality control in photochemical reactions 43 and the carbometallation of unactivated alkenes by zinc enolate derivatives.…”