Organic letters

Electrochemically supported deoxygenation of epoxides into alkenes in aqueous solution

JM Huang, ZQ Lin, DS Chen

Index: Huang, Jing-Mei; Lin, Zhi-Quan; Chen, Dong-Song Organic Letters, 2012 , vol. 14, # 1 p. 22 - 25

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Abstract

An efficient synthesis of alkenes from epoxides in a mixture of saturated aqueous NH4Br and tetrahydrofuran (8: 1) has been developed in an undivided cell fitted with a pair of zinc electrodes, and it is proposed that the reaction is mediated by Zn (0) with a hierarchically organized nanostructure.