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DOI: 10.1039/A802888E (Paper) Reference Section for: J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1998, 2401-2404

Catalytic carbon–chlorine bond cleavage via electrochemical reduction of [ReCl6]2–[hair space]*

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Alan R. Brown, Kenneth J. Taylor and Lesley J. Yellowlees

Abstract

Electrochemical reduction of hexachlororhenate(IV) in chlorinated solvents gave rise to a catalytic cycle producing free chloride and radical dimerisation products. Chlorine-36 tracer experiments showed this free chloride to be derived not from the solvent, as would be expected for a classical redox catalysis, but from the metal complex. A co-ordinatively unsaturated rhenium(III) intermediate capable of abstracting chlorine atoms to regenerate the starting material is proposed as the reactive species.

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