Back in 1849, German chemist Hermann Kolbe reported that he could form carbon- carbon bonds by electrolyzing carboxylate salts. On paper, this decarboxylative coupling looks promising, but it ...
DURING the course of electrochemical kinetic studies on the Kolbe reaction, we have observed a remarkable phenomenon, the details of which are recorded here. The classical Kolbe reaction involves the ...
A “RESEARCH Item” in NATURE of March 19 (p. 442) has directed our attention to a paper by Matsuda, 1 in which it is shown that hydrogen peroxide is formed in the course of the anodic oxidation of ...