Welcome to Moeller research group!

What are the “tools” that allow us to construct molecules, and are these “tools” capable of building what we need in a timely and efficient manner? These two questions provide the motivation for our group’s exploration of electrochemistry, an exploration that has led us to pursue two broad areas of research: synthetic electrochemistry and microelectrode array.

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October 23, 2012

Investigating the Reactivity of Radical Cations: Experimental and Computational Insights into the Reactions of Radical Cations with Alcohol and p-Toluene Sulfonamide Nucleophiles

John M. Campbell, Hai-Chao Xu, and Kevin D. Moeller

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (44), pp 18338–18344

The reactivity of electrochemically-generated radical cations towards alcohol and p-toluene sulfonamide nucleophiles was directly investigated through competition experiments. Alcohol-trapping of the radical cation is the kinetically favored pathway and is reversible. Trapping with the sulfonamide leads to the thermodynamic product. Both reaction pathways were investigated computationally with density functional theory (UB3LYP/6-31G(d)) calculations.

 

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Professor Kevin D. Moeller
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1134
One Brookings Drive
St Louis, MO 63130-4899

Phone:  314-935-4481
Lab Phone: 314-935-4522
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Email:  moeller@wustl.edu

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