Electrochemical oxidation of alcohols using iodonium ion as an electron carrier

✍ Scribed by Tatsuya Shono; Yoshihiro Matsumura; Jue Hayashi; Mikiko Mizoguchi

• Book ID: 104237498
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 155 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)85914-1

✦ Synopsis

The electrochemical oxidation of alcohols has not satisfactorily been accomplished2 because of their relatively high oxidation potentials.

3 We wish to report herein a simple and efficient electrochemical process for the oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols to the corresponding esters (eq. 1) and ketones (eq. 2), respectively, where an iodonium ion behaves as a catalytic electron carrier as shown in Figure .