Wei Xu, Nana Zhang, Chenyu Li, Haodong Ma, Bin Wang, Ziren Chen, Yu Xia, Shaofeng Wu, Weiwei Jin, Penji Yan, Chenjiang Liu and Yonghong Zhang
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Abstract
A straightforward strategy for the electrochemical vicinal amidoselenation of unactivated olefins via a tandem Ritter reaction was developed. The reaction was carried out with diaryl diselenides as selenylation reagents and acetonitrile as a nucleophile. Various amidoselenation products can be afforded from unactivated olefins under mild and metal- and oxidant-free electrochemical conditions. This strategy features a broad substrate scope, good functional group tolerance, scale-up synthesis, simple operation and mild reaction conditions. Detailed mechanistic insights and DFT calculations provided strong support for the tandem radical selenylation/oxidative Ritter reaction.
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Green Chemistry is a journal that provides a unique forum for the publication of innovative research on the development of alternative green and sustainable technologies. The scope of Green Chemistry is based on the definition proposed by Anastas and Warner (Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, P T Anastas and J C Warner, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998), which defines green chemistry as the utilisation of a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical products. Green Chemistry aims to reduce the environmental impact of the chemical enterprise by developing a technology base that is inherently non-toxic to living things and the environment. The journal welcomes submissions on all aspects of research relating to this endeavor and publishes original and significant cutting-edge research that is likely to be of wide general appeal. For a work to be published, it must present a significant advance in green chemistry, including a comparison with existing methods and a demonstration of advantages over those methods.