Enantioselective electrocatalytic oxidation of racemic alcohols on a TEMPO-modified graphite felt electrode by use of chiral base (TEMPO = 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-yloxyl)
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 24,p. 2745-2746
- https://doi.org/10.1039/cc9960002745
Abstract
The S-isomers of four racemic sec-alcohols, which possess a chiral centre at the α-position to the hydroxy group, were oxidized to the corresponding ketones whereas the R-isomers remained unreacted on a TEMPO-modified graphite felt electrode in the presence of (–)-sparteine, where the enantiopurity of the remaining R-isomers was > 99% and the current efficiency for the produced ketones was > 90%.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: