Room temperature-stable electride as a synthetic organic reagent: application to pinacol coupling reaction in aqueous media.
Room temperature-stable inorganic electride [Ca(24)Al(28)O(68)](4+)4e(-) was employed for a pinacol coupling reaction in aqueous media. Ca-Al-O gel formed by the destruction of the crystal structure of an electride by water media played a key role in transferring the electron to electrophilic aldehydes. Aromatic aldehydes reacted smoothly with moderate to high yields.
Buchammagari
Haritha
H
Frontier Collaborative Research Center and Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan.
Toda
Yoshitake
Y
Hirano
Masahiro
M
Hosono
Hideo
H
Takeuchi
Daisuke
D
Osakada
Kohtaro
K