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A gold oxidation relay

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Developing practical conditions for electrochemical gold-catalysed coupling reactions is synthetically challenging. Now, an oxidation relay using aryl radicals formed in situ from hydrazine offers a solution to this problem.

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Fig. 1: An overview of this electrochemical gold-catalysed coupling reaction.

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Zhang, S., Shi, X. A gold oxidation relay. Nat. Synth 2, 313–314 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-023-00253-2

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