Photochemical reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide using sulfite and ferrocyanide.

Photochemical reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide using sulfite and ferrocyanide.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 May 15;:
Authors: Xu J, Ritson DJ, Ranjan S, Todd ZR, Sasselov DD, Sutherland JD
Abstract
Photoredox cycling during UV irradiation of ferrocyanide ([FeII(CN)6]4-) in the presence of stoichiometric sulfite (SO32-) is shown to be an extremely effective way to drive the reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) to simple sugars and precursors of hydroxy acids and amino acids.
PMID: 29761807 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Chemical Communications - May 15, 2018 Category: Chemistry Authors: Xu J, Ritson DJ, Ranjan S, Todd ZR, Sasselov DD, Sutherland JD Tags: Chem Commun (Camb) Source Type: research