Accelerating Heat-Initiated Radical Reactions of Organic Halides with Tin Hydride Using Flow Microreactor Technologies

We herein report that flow microreactors can promote an efficiency of radical chain reactions. The chain reactions with a fast propagation step can be accelerated by virtue of an efficient heat-transfer character of the microreactors, whereas the yield of those reactions with a slow propagation step was increased by flow microreactors. Moreover, the yield was further increased by a sequential addition of the initiators, which was allowed by a flow-sequential-addition system.