Controlling One- or Two-Electron Oxidation for Selective Amine Functionalization by Alternating Current Frequency
作者:Disni Gunasekera、Jyoti P. Mahajan、Yanick Wanzi、Sachini Rodrigo、Wei Liu、Ting Tan、Long Luo
DOI:10.1021/jacs.2c02605
日期:2022.6.8
Here, we report a unique electrosynthetic method that enables the selective one-electron oxidation of tertiaryamines to generate α-amino radical intermediates over two-electron oxidation to iminium cations, providing easy access to arylation products by simply applying an optimal alternating current (AC) frequency. More importantly, we have discovered an electrochemical descriptor from cyclic voltammetry