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A Green Approach: Vicinal Oxidative Electrochemical Alkene Difunctionalization
Author(s) -
Martins Guilherme M.,
Shirinfar Bahareh,
Hardwick Tomas,
Ahmed Nisar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemelectrochem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 59
ISSN - 2196-0216
DOI - 10.1002/celc.201801466
Subject(s) - alkene , vicinal , hypervalent molecule , catalysis , electrochemistry , chemistry , reagent , combinatorial chemistry , atom economy , organic chemistry , electrode
Electrochemistry is now regarded as one of the most efficient ways to synthesize highly functionalized moieties, such as those of the difunctionalized vicinal alkene family, from simpler and more commercially available substrates. These vicinal transformations usually involve transition‐metal catalysts, hypervalent iodine reagents, or photocatalysts to form new bonds and often generate unwanted by‐products. Herein, we have outline examples of electrochemical alkene difunctionalization reactions that do not require a metal catalyst incorporated into the solution and yet still proceed with excellent atom economies.