Stereoselective electrochemical intramolecular imino-pinacol reaction: a straightforward entry to enantiopure piperazines

• Margherita Gazzotti,
• Fabrizio Medici,
• Valerio Chiroli,
• Laura Raimondi,
• Sergio Rossi and
• Maurizio Benaglia

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1897–1908, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.147

• applications in the preparation of chiral ligands. Keywords: chiral piperazines; electrosynthesis; flow chemistry; green chemistry; imino-pinacol coupling; Introduction Vicinal diamines represent a highly valuable class of compounds that, over the past decades, have found widespread application in natural