有機合成における電極反応の応用

Abstract

The chemical, site-specific oxidations of saturated hydrocarbons as mimic for biological process are important subjects in synthetic organic chemistry. Such oxidations are seldom achieved in conventional chemistry. The development of such methodology is challenging, extensive studies which are currently ongoing in many laboratories. Recently we found that the electrochemical oxidation can achieve the site-specific hydroxylation of a certain inactivated methine and methylene groups in moderate or good yields. Further we achieved stereoselective chlorination of steroidal double bonds and selective cleavage of styrylic olefins as well as the triene of vitamin D2 by electrolysis. Descried herein are the scope and limitation, and the synthetic application of such electrochemical oxidation reactions.