Anodic Oxidations of Carboxylic Acids in Batch and Flow:
New Tricks for an Old Reaction
Dr Kevin Lam, The University of Greenwich School of Science, Chatham Maritime, ME4 4TB, UK
Where ? Amphi Friedel (Chimie ParisTech – PSL)
Synthetic organic electrochemistry takes its roots from Faraday and Kolbe’s classic works on electrolysis of aliphatic carboxylic acids. Although a plethora of transformations have been developed ever since and many of them were successfully used in several industrial processes, the potential of preparative organic electrochemistry remains underestimated.
However, the growing impetus to look for greener and more costeffective alternatives to traditional synthetic methodologies recently led to the development of novel electrosynthetic methods.
We will disclose new, safe, green, affordable and efficient ways to generate highly reactive organic intermediates, such as isocyanates, orthoesters, and oxycarbonyl radicals during this presentation. We will also discuss their scale up by using flow electrosynthesis.
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