Convenient Electrocatalytic Synthesis of Azobenzenes from Nitroaromatic Derivatives Using SmI<sub>2</sub>
作者:Yu-Feng Zhang、Mohamed Mellah
DOI:10.1021/acscatal.7b02940
日期:2017.12.1
The synthesis of azobenzenes has been a long-standing challenge. Their current preparation at a preparative or industrial scale requires stoichiometric amounts of environmentally unfriendly reactants. Herein, we demonstrate that the catalytic use of electrogenerated samarium diiodide (SmI2) could promote, in one-step synthesis, the reduction of nitrobenzenes into azobenzenes in high yields under mild