Polyhalides as efficient and mild oxidants for oxidative carbene organocatalysis by radical processes

• Main Authors: Wu, Xingxing, Zhang, Yuexia, Wang, Yuhuang, Ke, Jie, Jeret, Martin, Reddi, Rambabu N., Yang, Song, Song, Bao-An, Chi, Robin Yonggui
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Science::Chemistry; N-Heterocyclic Carbenes; Aldehydes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85610; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43775
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Simple and inexpensive polyhalides (CCl4 and C2Cl6 ) have been found to be effective and versatile oxidants in removing electrons from Breslow intermediates under N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalysis. This oxidative reaction involves multiple single-electron-transfer (SET) processes and several ra...