Concentrated aqueous peroxodicarbonate: efficient electrosynthesis and use as oxidizer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.: RESOLV members Prof. Lukas Gooßen's and Prof. Siegfried Waldvogel's study introduces the effective electrochemical synthesis of concentrated peroxodicarbonate solutions and their potential use as platform oxidizers was clearly demonstrated in transformations including sulfoxidation, N-oxidation, and epoxidation.
Peroxodicarbonates are of substantial interest as potentially powerful and sustainable oxidizers but have so far been accessible only in low concentrations with unsatisfactory energy efficiency. Concentrated (> 0.9 mol L−1) peroxodicarbonate solutions have now been made accessible by the electrolysis of aqueous K2CO3/Na2CO3/KHCO3 solutions at high current density of 3.33 A cm−2 in an efficiently cooled circular flow reactor equipped with a boron-doped diamond anode and a stainless-steel cathode. Their synthetic potential as platform oxidizers was clearly demonstrated in transformations including sulfoxidation, N-oxidation, and epoxidation.
