Photochemical reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide using sulfite and ferrocyanide

著者: Jianfeng Xu, Dougal J. Ritson, Sukrit Ranjan, Zoe R. Todd, Dimitar Sasselov, John D. Sutherland - Chemical Communications 2018 被引用: 126

Photoredox cycling during UV irradiation of ferrocyanide ([FeII(CN)6]4-) in the presence of stoichiometric sulfite (SO32-) is shown to be an extremely effective way to drive the reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) to simple sugars and precursors of hydroxy acids and amino acids.