One-electron oxidation of carboxylates by hexachloroosmate(V) ion
Abstract
Hexachloroosmate(V) cleanly oxidizes tetrabutylammonium tert-butylcyanoacetate to decaboxylative-coupling products, meso-and rac-2,3-di-tert-butylsuccinonitrile, thus constituting the first metal ion-based oxidant to be found to simulate properly this aspect of the Kolbe anodic oxidation of carboxylates.