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SCIENCE BULLETIN
Volume 66, Issue 23, Pages 2412-2429Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2021.07.011
Keywords
Organic electrosynthesis; Indirect electrolysis; Redox catalyst; Transition metal; Electrocatalyst
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21821002, 21772222, 91956112]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB20000000]
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [18JC1415600, 20JC1417100]
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Organic electrosynthesis utilizes electric current as a traceless redox agent, providing an environmentally conscious alternative; indirect electrolysis with redox catalysts can avoid overpotential of electron transfer, achieving wide functional group tolerance and selectivity control.
Organic electrosynthesis has been widely used as an environmentally conscious alternative to conventional methods for redox reactions because it utilizes electric current as a traceless redox agent instead of chemical redox agents. Indirect electrolysis employing a redox catalyst has received tremendous attention, since it provides various advantages compared to direct electrolysis. With indirect electrolysis, overpotential of electron transfer can be avoided, which is inherently milder, thus wide functional group tolerance can be achieved. Additionally, chemoselectivity, regioselectivity, and stereoselectivity can be tuned by the redox catalysts used in indirect electrolysis. Furthermore, electrode passivation can be avoided by preventing the formation of polymer films on the electrode surface. Common redox catalysts include N-oxyl radicals, hypervalent iodine species, halides, amines, benzoquinones (such as DDQ and tetrachlorobenzoquinone), and transition metals. In recent years, great progress has been made in the field of indirect organic electrosynthesis using transition metals as redox catalysts for reaction classes including C-H functionalization, radical cyclization, and cross-coupling of aryl halides-each owing to the diverse reactivity and accessible oxidation states of transition metals. Although various reviews of organic electrosynthesis are available, there is a lack of articles that focus on recent research progress in the area of indirect electrolysis using transition metals, which is the impetus for this review. (c) 2021 Science China Press. Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science China Press. All rights reserved.
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