Radical‐promoted C‐C bond cleavage: a deconstructive approach for selective functionalization Morcillo Martínez, Sara Patricia Just as “Deconstructivism”appearedas anovel movement in archi-tecturein the 1980s,deconstructiveapproaches haverecentlyemergedas excellentstrategiesfor scaffoldhoppingmodificationsin chemistry.The deconstructionand functionalizationof cyclicmoleculesmainlyinvolvesthe cleavageof the carbon–carbon(C@C) bondfollowedbythe constructionof new bonds.The cleavageof inertC@Csinglebonds,especiallyin unstrainedcycles,and theirsubsequentfunctionalizationis still one of the mostsought-afterchallengesin chemistry.Inthis vein,radical-mediatedstrategiesprovidean excellentapproachforachievingthis aim.Thisminireviewis an outlineof the historyofhomolyticcleavageand highlightsthe recentadvancesin exploringnewchemicalspaceby deconstructivefunctionalization. 2024-01-26T13:48:18Z 2024-01-26T13:48:18Z 2019-10 journal article Angewandte Chemie International Edition 58 (40), 14044-14054 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/87399 10.1002/anie.201905218 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Wiley Online Library