Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Electrochemical oxidative difunctionalization of diazo compounds with two different nucleophiles

  • Dongfeng Yang,
  • Zhipeng Guan,
  • Yanan Peng,
  • Shuxiang Zhu,
  • Pengjie Wang,
  • Zhiliang Huang,
  • Hesham Alhumade,
  • Dong Gu,
  • Hong Yi,
  • Aiwen Lei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37032-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The difunctionalization of diazo compounds, traditionally with one nucleophile and one electrophile, is a powerful strategy. Here, the authors develop a path of electrochemical oxidative difunctionalization of diazo compounds with two different nucleophiles.