PINO/NHPI-mediated selective oxidation of cycloalkenes to cycloalkenones via a photo-electrochemical method

Hiroyuki Tateno; Yugo Miseki; Kazuhiro Sayama

doi:10.1039/c9cc03540k

PINO/NHPI-mediated selective oxidation of cycloalkenes to cycloalkenones via a photo-electrochemical method

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Aug 14;55(63):9339-9342. doi: 10.1039/c9cc03540k. Epub 2019 Jul 17.

Authors

Hiroyuki Tateno¹, Yugo Miseki¹, Kazuhiro Sayama¹

Affiliation

¹ Advanced Functional Material Team, Research Center for Photovoltaics (RCPV), National Institution of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan. k.sayama@aist.go.jp.

PMID: 31313758
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc03540k

Abstract

The selective photo-electrochemical oxidation of cyclohexene to 2-cyclohexene-1-one was successfully performed with excellent Faraday efficiency (>99%) via indirect oxidation with a PINO/NHPI mediator and O₂ on a BiVO₄/WO₃ photoanode under low applied bias.