Cobaloxlmes Organochromlurn reagents 19 Miscellaneous reagents Methods Analyses and characterizations 23 % Co analysis Product analyses Rate determinations DESIGN OF COMPETITION EXPERIMENTS •CH(CH^)0C2H^ Radical-CfCHgigOH Radical RESULTS 41 Reactions of the-CHfCHgïOCgHg Radical with Organocobaloximes 41 Benzyl(aquo)cobaloxime, PhCHgCofdmgHjgOHg 4l Other alkylcobaloxlmes, RCo(dmgH)_OH_ (R = CH,, CH"CH_, and Reactions of the "CfCH^jgOH Radical with Organocobaloximes 55 Benzyl(aquo)cobaloxime, PhCHgCofdmgHjgOHg 55 Other alkylcobaloxlmes, RCo(dmgH)_0H_ (R = CH,, CH«CH_, and 63 î i I Products of the Coupling Reactions Between Selected Free Radicals and Benzy1(aquo)cobaloxime 72 Preparation of a Large Sample of 2-Methyl-1-phenyl-2-propano1 79 Protonation Constant for Benzyl coba loxi me 80 DISCUSSION 84 Mechanistic Alternatives 86 Electron transfer mechanisms 88 Bimolecular homolytic substitution 89 Addition-elimination mechanisms 91 Fate of the 0-radicals from 2-propanol and ethanol 97 Conclusions 99 PART II. REDUCTION OF FLUORGPENTAAMMINECOBALT(III), CoCNHgigF^*, BY 2-HYDR0XY-2-PR0PYL AND a-ETHOXYETHYL RADICALS 100