Another success for Joon’s composite dispersion reaction medium; a most interesting and useful electrochemically mediated chain reaction. Collaboration with Prof. Zeng of BJUT

Aromatic C-H bond functionalization induced by electrochemically in situ generated tris(p-bromophenyl)aminium (TBPA) radical cation: cationic chain reactions of electron-rich aromatics with enamides, Li, L.; Jiang, Y.; Zeng, C-C; Hu, L-M.; Tian, H-Y.; Lam, C. M.; Little, R. D. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80(21), 11021-11030 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5b02222