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Spatio-temporal detachment of homogeneous electron transfer in controlling selectivity in mediated organic electrosynthesis

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d3fd00089c

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In electrosynthesis, the choice of electron transfer (ET) mediators plays a crucial role in achieving selective heterogeneous electron transfer. This study explores a counterintuitive situation where the mediator has a lower reduction potential than the substrate, leading to a detached reaction layer and a different reaction pathway. Simulations and experiments on electroreductive cyclisation support the potential use of highly reducing homogeneous ET agents in mediated electrosynthesis.
In electrosynthesis, electron transfer (ET) mediators are normally chosen such that they are more easily reduced (or oxidised) than the substrate for cathodic (or anodic) processes; setting the electrode potential to the mediator therefore ensures selective heterogeneous ET with the mediator at the electrode, rather than the substrate. The current work investigates the opposite, and counter intuitive, situation for a successful mediated electroreductive process where the mediator (phenanthrene) has a reduction potential that is negative to that of the substrate, and the cathode potential is set negative to both (E-ele < E-M < E-s). Simulations reveal a complex interplay between mass transport, the relative concentrations of the mediator and substrate as well as the heterogeneous and homogeneous rate constants for multiple steps, which under suitable conditions, leads to separation of the homogeneous chemistry in a reaction layer detached from the electrode. Reaction layer detachment is a spatio-temporal effect arising due to opposing fluxes of the mediator radical anion M center dot- and the substrate 1, which ultimately prevents 1 from reaching the electrode, thereby affording a different reaction pathway. Simulations representative of unstirred batch (1D) and flow (2D) electrolysis are presented, which qualitatively reproduce the experimental selectivity outcomes for mediated and unmediated electroreductive cyclisation of aryl iodide 1. The potential to use highly reducing homogeneous ET agents, possessing reduction potentials beyond those of the substrates, offers exciting opportunities in mediated electrosynthesis.

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