Asymmetric electrosynthesis: Recent advances in catalytic transformations |
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Authors: | Kosuke Yamamoto Masami Kuriyama Osamu Onomura |
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Affiliation: | Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan |
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Abstract: | Asymmetric synthesis is one of the most important and valuable research fields in modern organic chemistry. Since the use of electricity as a traceless oxidant or reductant under electrochemical conditions, highly reactive intermediates can selectively generate under mild reaction conditions through more environmentally benign conditions compared with the reactions using common chemical oxidants or reductants. Thus, the merging electrochemistry with asymmetric catalysis would provide a unique and powerful approach for the synthesis of optically active compounds under oxidative or reductive conditions. Selected recent (2018–2020) examples of enantioselective electro-organic synthesis using transition metal catalysts or organocatalysts are summarized in this short review. These examples are divided to oxidative and reductive transformations and described together with brief reaction mechanisms. |
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Keywords: | Asymmetric synthesis Anodic oxidation Cathodic reduction Transition metal catalysts Organocatalysts |
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