TY - JOUR
T1 - Electrochemical Hydrogenation with Gaseous Ammonia
AU - Li, Jin
AU - He, Lingfeng
AU - Liu, Xu
AU - Cheng, Xu
AU - Li, Guigen
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (nos. 21572099 and 21332005) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (no. BK20151379). This study was supported by the Open Project of State Key Laboratory Cul-tivation Base for TCM Quality and Efficacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine (No. TCMQ & E 201702).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/2/4
Y1 - 2019/2/4
N2 - As a carbon-free and sustainable fuel, ammonia serves as high-energy-density hydrogen-storage material. It is important to develop new reactions able to utilize ammonia as a hydrogen source directly. Herein, we report an electrochemical hydrogenation of alkenes, alkynes, and ketones using ammonia as the hydrogen source and carbon electrodes. A variety of heterocycles and functional groups, including for example sulfide, benzyl, benzyl carbamate, and allyl carbamate were well tolerated. Fast stepwise electron transfer and proton transfer processes were proposed to account for the transformation.
AB - As a carbon-free and sustainable fuel, ammonia serves as high-energy-density hydrogen-storage material. It is important to develop new reactions able to utilize ammonia as a hydrogen source directly. Herein, we report an electrochemical hydrogenation of alkenes, alkynes, and ketones using ammonia as the hydrogen source and carbon electrodes. A variety of heterocycles and functional groups, including for example sulfide, benzyl, benzyl carbamate, and allyl carbamate were well tolerated. Fast stepwise electron transfer and proton transfer processes were proposed to account for the transformation.
KW - ammonia
KW - electrochemistry
KW - hydrogen-storage material
KW - hydrogenation
KW - sustainable chemistry
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U2 - 10.1002/anie.201813464
DO - 10.1002/anie.201813464
M3 - Article
C2 - 30549399
AN - SCOPUS:85059862659
VL - 58
SP - 1759
EP - 1763
JO - Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
JF - Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
SN - 1433-7851
IS - 6
ER -