Electrochemical Benzylic C(sp3)−H Acyloxylation

Alastair J J Lennox; Alex Atkins; Bert C Rowett; David M Heard; Joseph A Tate

doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.2c01930

Electrochemical Benzylic C(sp3)−H Acyloxylation

Alastair J J Lennox
, Alex Atkins
, Bert C Rowett
, David M Heard
, Joseph A Tate

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The development of sustainable C(sp3)−H function- alization methods is of great interest to the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. Anodic oxidation is an efficient means of producing benzylic cations that can undergo subsequent in situ nucleophilic attack to afford functionalized benzylic products. Herein, we demonstrate the suitability of carboxylic acids as nucleophiles to yield benzylic esters. This method employs a series of secondary benzylic substrates and functionalized carboxylic acids and is demonstrated on a gram scale in flow

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5105-5108
Number of pages	4
Journal	Organic Letters
Volume	24
Issue number	28
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.2c01930
Publication status	Published - 13 Jul 2022

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The authors thank the Royal Society (University Research Fellowship and Enhancement Awards to A.J.J.L.), EPSRC (EP/T001631/1, EP/L016443/1, and EP/S018050/1), and Syngenta for funding.

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