Paired Electrolysis Enabled Cyanation of Diaryl Diselenides with KSCN Leading to Aryl Selenocyanates

Wei-Bao He; Luo-Lin Tang; Jun Jiang; Xiao Li; Xinhua Xu; Tian-Bao Yang; Wei-Min He

doi:10.3390/molecules28031397

Paired Electrolysis Enabled Cyanation of Diaryl Diselenides with KSCN Leading to Aryl Selenocyanates

Molecules. 2023 Feb 1;28(3):1397. doi: 10.3390/molecules28031397.

Authors

Wei-Bao He¹, Luo-Lin Tang¹, Jun Jiang², Xiao Li², Xinhua Xu¹, Tian-Bao Yang³, Wei-Min He²

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
² School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China.
³ National Engineering Research Center of Low-Carbon Processing and Utilization of Forest Biomass, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.

Abstract

The first example of paired electrolysis-enabled cyanation of diaryl diselenides, with KSCN as the green cyanating agent, has been developed. A broad range of aryl selenocyanates can be efficiently synthesized under chemical-oxidant- and additive-free, energy-saving and mild conditions.

Keywords: aryl selenocyanates; cyanation; diaryl diselenides; green chemistry; paired electrolysis.

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department (22B0435).