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Electrochemical Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi Coupling: Scope, Applications, and Mechanism
Baran, Phil S.,Blackmond, Donna G.,Gao, Yang,Hadt, Ryan G.,Hao, Wei,Hill, David E.,McNicholas, Brendon J.,Reisman, Sarah E.,Vantourout, Julien C.
, p. 9478 - 9488 (2021/07/19)
One of the most oft-employed methods for C-C bond formation involving the coupling of vinyl-halides with aldehydes catalyzed by Ni and Cr (Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi, NHK) has been rendered more practical using an electroreductive manifold. Although early studies pointed to the feasibility of such a process, those precedents were never applied by others due to cumbersome setups and limited scope. Here we show that a carefully optimized electroreductive procedure can enable a more sustainable approach to NHK, even in an asymmetric fashion on highly complex medicinally relevant systems. The e-NHK can even enable non-canonical substrate classes, such as redox-active esters, to participate with low loadings of Cr when conventional chemical techniques fail. A combination of detailed kinetics, cyclic voltammetry, and in situ UV-vis spectroelectrochemistry of these processes illuminates the subtle features of this mechanistically intricate process.
