Cathode enabled high faradaic efficiency: reduction of imines to amines with H2O as a H-source

Aihua Wang; Xin Liu; Wei Gao; Li Ma; Siyuan Liu; Guofeng Zhang; Mingyang Zhou; Xiaofei Jia; Jianbin Chen

doi:10.1039/D2CC03479D

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Cathode enabled high faradaic efficiency: reduction of imines to amines with H₂O as a H-source†

Aihua Wang,^a Xin Liu,^a Wei Gao,^a Li Ma,^a Siyuan Liu,

*^a Guofeng Zhang,

*^a Mingyang Zhou,

^a Xiaofei Jia

^b and Jianbin Chen

*^a

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^a Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Biobased Material and Green Papermaking, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, P. R. China
E-mail: jchen@qlu.edu.cn

^b Key Laboratory of Optic-electric Sensing and Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, MOE, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, P. R. China

Abstract

Benefiting from a high overpotential of the competitive hydrogen evolution reaction with a carbon paper cathode, the desired electrochemical reduction of imines was achieved with high faradaic efficiency by using H₂O as a H-source. With this sustainable atom-economic strategy, a series of potentially versatile amines were obtained in medium-to-high yields (49–86%).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC03479D
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 22 Jun 2022
Accepted: 05 Aug 2022
First published: 09 Aug 2022

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Chem. Commun., 2022,58, 9906-9909

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Cathode enabled high faradaic efficiency: reduction of imines to amines with H₂O as a H-source

A. Wang, X. Liu, W. Gao, L. Ma, S. Liu, G. Zhang, M. Zhou, X. Jia and J. Chen, Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 9906 DOI: 10.1039/D2CC03479D

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