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Electrifying catalytic aerobic oxidation

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Extensive research efforts have been devoted to development of catalytic oxidation manifolds based on molecular oxygen. Now, an unconventional approach for oxygenation of organic sulfides by this abundant oxidant is introduced by merging nickel catalysis with electrochemistry.

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Fig. 1: Oxygen activation and electrochemically enabled nickel-catalysed oxygenation of sulfides.

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    Andrey Shatskiy, Jian-Quan Liu & Markus D. Kärkäs

  2. School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Green Synthesis for Functional Materials, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

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Shatskiy, A., Liu, JQ. & Kärkäs, M.D. Electrifying catalytic aerobic oxidation. Nat Catal 4, 96–97 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-021-00583-4

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