Electric-Field Catalysis on Carbon Nanotubes in Electromicrofluidic Reactors: Monoterpene Cyclizations.

ABSTRACT: The control over the movement of electrons during chemical reactions with oriented external electric fields (OEEFs) has been predicted to offer a general approach to catalysis. Recently, we suggested that many problems to realize electric-field catalysis in practice under scalable bulk conditions could possibly be solved on multiwalled carbon nanotubes in electromicrofluidic reactors. Here, we selected monoterpene cyclizations to assess the scope of our system in organic synthesis. We report that electric-field catalysis can function by stabilizing both anionic and cationic transition states, depending on the orientation of the applied field. Moreover, electric-field catalysis can promote reactions which are barely accessible by general Brønsted and Lewis acids and field-free anion-π and c

SUBMITTER: Jozeliunaite A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11753599 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature