Electrocatalytic formal [2+2] cycloaddition reactions between anodically activated enyloxy benzene and alkenes.
Electrocatalytic formal [2+2] cycloadditions between anodically activated enyloxy benzene and alkenes have been accomplished in a lithium perchlorate/nitromethane electrolyte solution. The enyloxy benzene moiety of these electrolytic substrates played an important role in the formation of a radical cation that could accept nucleophilic alkenes, followed by intramolecular electron transfer between the cyclobutane and phenyl ether moieties of the intermediates.
Arata
Michiko
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Laboratory of Bio-organic Chemistry, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, Japan.
Miura
Teppei
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Chiba
Kazuhiro
K
D000475:Alkenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D001555:Benzene Derivatives / Q000737:chemistry*; D002384:Catalysis; D003500:Cyclization; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000379:methods; D015394:Molecular Structure
D000475:Alkenes; D001555:Benzene Derivatives