Journal of The Electrochemical Society

Selective Oxidation of an Electronically Unsymmetrical Distyrylbenzene at Either of Two Sites

AP Davis, AJ Fry

Index: Davis, Anthony P.; Fry, Albert J. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2013 , vol. 160, # 7 p. G3091-G3096

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Abstract

Abstract A p-distyrylbenzene bearing electron-withdrawing groups on one terminal ring and electron-supplying groups on the other was synthesized and one ring was found to be significantly more electron rich than the other. Electrochemical oxidative cleavage was