Seavill, P;
Holt, KB;
Wilden, JD;
(2019)
Investigations Into the Mechanism of Copper-Mediated Glaser-Hay Couplings Using Electrochemical Techniques.
Faraday Discussions
, 220
10.1039/c9fd00031c.
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Abstract
The mechanism of the copper mediated C-C bond forming reaction known as Glaser-Hay coupling (alkyne dimerization) has been investigated using electrochemical techniques. Applying an oxidative potential to a copper or copper-coated graphite electrode in the presence of the organic base DABCO results in the dimerization of phenylacetylene in good yield. Further mechanistic investigation has shown that this reaction medium results in the assembly of a dinuclear Cu(I) complex which, although previously reported, has never been shown to have catalytic properties for C-C bond formation. The complex is reminiscent of that proposed in the Bohlmann model for the Glaser-Hay reaction and as such lends weight to this proposed mechanism above the alternative proposed mononuclear catalytic cycle.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Investigations Into the Mechanism of Copper-Mediated Glaser-Hay Couplings Using Electrochemical Techniques |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c9fd00031c |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1039/c9fd00031c |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079560 |
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