Electrocatalytic Oxidative Transformation of Organic Acids for Carbon–Heteroatom and Sulfur–Heteroatom Bond Formation

Abstract

The electrolysis of organic acids has garnered increasing attention in recent years. In addition to the famous electrochemical decarboxylation known as Kolbe electrolysis, a number of other electrochemical processes have been recently established that allow for the construction of carbon–heteroatom and sulfur–heteroatom bonds from organic acids. Herein, recent advances in electrochemical C−X and S−X (X=N, O, S, Se) bond‐forming reactions from five classes of organic acids and their conjugate bases, namely, carboxylic, thiocarboxylic, phosphonic, sulfinic, and sulfonic acids, are surveyed.

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