Electrochemically induced chain reactions: the electrochemical behavior of nitrosobenzene in the presence of proton donors in tetrahydrofuran

…, Y Huang, Y Couture, A Lasia, J Lessard

Index: Mugnier, Yves; Gard, Jean-Christophe; Huang, Youqin; Couture, Yvon; Lasia, Andrzej; Lessard, Jean Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1993 , vol. 58, # 20 p. 5329 - 5334

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Abstract

The electrochemical reduction of nitrosobenzene in tetrahydrofuran with tetrabutylammonium hexafluorophosphate as the supporting electrolyte and in the presence of fluorene or indene at room temperature gives a mixture of an anil (1 or 3), a nitrone (2 or 4), and azoxybenzene and requires only a catalytic amount of electricity. Lowering the temperature and/or increasing the proportion of proton donor favors the formation of the ...