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Electrochemical reduction of benzaldehyde to benzyl alcohol at a mercury cathode

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On the example of the electroreduction of benzaldehyde it was shown that it is theoretically possible to obtain the alcohol in quantitative yield by suppressing the formation of pinacols; for this it is necessary to use low concentrations of benzaldehyde and high concentrations of a potassium salt in the buffer solution with a pH of 6.0–6.5 at potentials of −2.0 V (relative to the satd. calomel electrode).

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  1. S. G. Mairanovskii
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  2. T. Ya. Rubinskaya
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  3. V. P. Gul'tyai
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N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 2360–2362, October, 1976.

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Mairanovskii, S.G., Rubinskaya, T.Y., Gul'tyai, V.P. et al. Electrochemical reduction of benzaldehyde to benzyl alcohol at a mercury cathode. Russ Chem Bull 25, 2203–2205 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02659552

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