Electrochemical deoxygenative arylation of aldehydes and ketones

Abstract

The construction of diaryl alkanes from aromatic aldehydes or ketones with electron-deficient arenes is achieved in the presence of trivalent phosphine under electrochemical conditions. A reductive coupling between electron-deficient arenes...

Electrochemical deoxygenative homo-couplings of aromatic aldehydes

“…Trivalent phosphine is a common reagent used for the dehydroxylative transformation of alcohols, 21 for example in Mitsunobu-type reactions. In the past few years, our group and others 22 have reported some electrochemical dehydroxylative reactions of alcohols with the assistance of trivalent phosphine. These reactions involve either the alkoxy triphenylphosphine ion or phosphoranyl radical intermediates.…”