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Carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond-forming reactions constitute the central theme of organic synthesis, and progress in modern synthesis is dependent on development of novel methodologies for the same. Among the various methods for bond formation, single-electron transfer (SET) reactions undoubtedly occupy a prime position. Of the different methods of SET, chemical methods for the generation of radicals have emerged to be very important in recent years. Radicals have been known to the organic chemists ever since the epoch-making discovery of the triphenylmethyl radical by Gomberg in the year 1900. 1, 2 Almost four decades later, significant contributions to the development of this area were made by Hey and Waters3 and Kharasch, 4 who carried out elaborate studies on the mechanisms of radical reactions. In spite of a clear understanding of the mechanistic background, radical reactions …