Electrochemical hydrogenation of a benzannulated pyridine to a dihydropyridine in acidic solution

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2017-11-30
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Giesbrecht, Patrick
Nemez, Dion
Herbert, David E
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Royal Society of Chemistry
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The electrochemistry of pyridines in acidic solution is dominated by a ‘weak acid’ reduction on the cyclic voltammetry timescale. Here we show that electrochemical hydrogenation of a benzannulated pyridine, phenanthridine (1), to the biomimetic hydride donor 1,2-dihydrophenanthridine (1-H2) can occur selectively at glassy carbon electrodes over longer timescales of potentiostatic electrolysis.
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electrochemistry
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Chemical Communications, 2018, 54, 338-341
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http://hdl.handle.net/1993/36057
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