Enantioselective electrochemical carbon-chloride bond cleavage of hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) catalyzed by Mn(III)Cl-phthalocyanine

Publication date: 15 October 2017 Source:Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Volume 803 Author(s): Junxia Wen, Baoqiu Yu, Tingting Huang, John Mack, Martijn Wildervanck, Tebello Nyokong, Minzhi Li, Weihua Zhu, Xu Liang A lipophilic and electron-rich metallophthalocyanine Mn(III)Cl(α,α′-n-OC5H11)8Pc has been synthesized and characterized. A series of electrochemical experiments demonstrate that the Mn(III)Cl(α,α′-n-OC5H11)8Pc complex can be used as a catalyst for highly efficient carbon-chloride bond cleavage of environmental toxic hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) through electrochemical catalysis, and that the increased catalytic efficiency is related to the enantiomeric carbon-chloride σ-bond of HCHs.
Source: Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry - Category: Chemistry Source Type: research