Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University Ithaca NY 14853 USA
Abstract
AbstractSingle‐electron transfer (SET) plays a critical role in many chemical processes, from organic synthesis to environmental remediation. However, the selective reduction of inert substrates (Ep/2<−2 V vs Fc/Fc+), such as ubiquitous electron‐neutral and electron‐rich (hetero)aryl chlorides, remains a major challenge. Current approaches largely rely on catalyst photoexcitation to reach the necessary deeply reducing potentials or suffer from limited substrate scopes. Herein, we demonstrate that cumulenes–organic molecules with multiple consecutive double bonds–can function as catalytic redox mediators for the electroreductive radical borylation of (hetero)aryl chlorides at relatively mild cathodic potentials (approximately −1.9 V vs. Ag/AgCl) without the need for photoirradiation. Electrochemical, spectroscopic, and computational studies support that step‐wise electron transfer from reduced cumulenes to electron‐neutral chloroarenes is followed by thermodynamically favorable mesolytic cleavage of the aryl radical anion to generate the desired aryl radical intermediate. Our findings will guide the development of other sustainable, purely electroreductive radical transformations of inert molecules using organic redox mediators.
Funder
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
National Science Foundation
Subject
General Chemistry,Catalysis
Cited by
2 articles.
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