Is there a way to synthesize benzopinacol without using radicals?

What's wrong with radicals?

>>8559065
bitch what

>>8559028
Not as far as I know
T. Almost chemist

if you want to be a real piece of scum, you could do a wittig to add to the ketone, then use osmium tetroxide to syndihydroxylate

it's fucking filthy but it'll do it

>>8559065
Way too many side products and radicals rarely ever terminate, too.