Beilstein J. Org. Chem.2022,18, 1062–1069, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.108
simple and user-friendly undivided cell set-up, consuming the anode material with generating stoichiometric metal waste may be a serious issue in terms of green and sustainable chemistry. Thus, the development of a sacrificial anode-free process such as pairedelectrolysis would be highly desirable [40
alcohol derivatives. The present transformations smoothly proceed in a simple undivided cell under constant current conditions without the use of external chemical oxidants/reductants, and transition-metal catalysts.
Keywords: alcohols; dimerization; electrooxidation; electroreduction; paired
electrolysis; Introduction
Carbon–carbon bond formation is one of the most fundamental and important reactions in synthetic organic chemistry. Reductive coupling of carbonyl compounds known as pinacol coupling would be a powerful method to construct vic-1,2-diol scaffolds through C–C bond formation [1][2
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Graphical Abstract
Scheme 1:
Strategies for the synthesis of vic-1,2-diols.