The in situ and environmentally friendly thiocyanation (no use of toxic oxidizing agents) electrochemical thiocyanation of aromatic compounds involving various derivatives of anisole and aniline to afford aromatic thiocyanates have been studied in organic acidic media. The initial electrochemical step involves anodic oxidation of thiocyanate anion to its radical (SCN), followed by dimerization to thiocyanogen (SCN) 2. The latter is polarized by ...
[Motto, John M.; Castillo, Alvaro; Greer, Alexander; Montemayer, Laura K.; Sheepwash, Erin E.; Schwan, Adrian L. Tetrahedron, 2011 , vol. 67, # 5 p. 1002 - 1010]
