A guide to organic electroreduction using sacrificial anodes

Y Li, L Wen, W Guo - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic electrosynthesis is a green strategy for the synthesis of valuable molecules.
Electrochemical reactions using sacrificial metal anodes enable new reactivity to be …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in cathodic reduction-enabled organic electrosynthesis: Trends, challenges, and opportunities

B Huang, Z Sun, G Sun - eScience, 2022 - Elsevier
Compared with general redox chemistry, electrochemistry using the electron as a potent,
controllable, yet traceless alternative to chemical oxidants/reductants usually offers more …

Electroreductive Dicarboxylation of Unactivated Skipped Dienes with CO2

W Zhang, LL Liao, L Li, Y Liu, LF Dai… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Carboxylation of easily available alkenes with CO2 is highly important to afford value‐added
carboxylic acids. Although dicarboxylation of activated alkenes, especially 1, 3‐dienes, has …

Versatile tools for understanding electrosynthetic mechanisms

ECR McKenzie, S Hosseini, AGC Petro… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrosynthesis is a popular, green alternative to traditional organic methods.
Understanding the mechanisms is not trivial yet is necessary to optimize reaction processes …

Recent advances in the synthesis of difluorinated architectures from trifluoromethyl groups

F Zhao, W Zhou, Z Zuo - Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorine‐containing moieties are widely used in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and
material fields. Thus, these structures are of immense interest in the fields of organic …

Chromium-catalyzed allylic defluorinative ketyl olefin coupling

C Zhang, Z Lin, Y Zhu, C Wang - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein we report a chromium-catalyzed allylic defluorinative ketyl olefin coupling between
aldehydes and α-trifluoromethyl alkenes, which provides novel and efficient access to …

Ketyl radical coupling enabled by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon electrophotocatalysts

JM Edgecomb, SN Alektiar, NGW Cowper… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report a new class of electrophotocatalysts, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,
that promote the reduction of unactivated carbonyl compounds to generate versatile ketyl …

Time-Resolved EPR Revealed the Formation, Structure, and Reactivity of N-Centered Radicals in an Electrochemical C(sp3)–H Arylation Reaction

Y Liu, B Shi, Z Liu, R Gao, C Huang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical synthesis has been rapidly developed over the past few years, while a vast
majority of the reactions proceed through a radical pathway. Understanding the properties of …

Electrochemical radical-polar crossover: a radical approach to polar chemistry

Z Tan, H Zhang, K Xu, C Zeng - Science China Chemistry, 2024 - Springer
Radical-polar crossover (RPC) reaction bridges the gap between one-and two-electron
reactivities, thus providing an ideal solution to overcome the limitations of both radical and …

Room Temperature Construction of Vicinal Amino Alcohols via Electroreductive Cross-Coupling of N-Heteroarenes and Carbonyls

M Wang, C Zhang, C Ci, H Jiang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite the widespread applications of α-hydroxyalkyl cyclic amines, direct and diverse
access to such a class of unique vicinal amino alcohols still remains, to date, a challenge …