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The selective electrochemical bromoalkoxylation of olefins has been achieved using a membrane-free (diaphragmless) cell to give bromoethers in 60–95% yields, under conditions of cathodic conversion of dibromides formed via competing side reactions back to the olefin precursors.
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Bromide ion has been found to catalyze the electrochemical addition of methanol to allylbenzene, resulting in the formation of ethers in 75% yield.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1829–1935, August, 1988.
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Élinson, M.N., Makhova, I.V. & Nikishin, G.I. Selective electrochemical bromoalkoxylation of aryl olefins. Russ Chem Bull 37, 1636–1641 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00961113
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