Electrochemical late-stage functionalization

Y Wang, S Dana, H Long, Y Xu, Y Li… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Late-stage functionalization (LSF) constitutes a powerful strategy for the assembly or
diversification of novel molecular entities with improved physicochemical or biological …

Electrophotocatalysis: combining light and electricity to catalyze reactions

H Huang, KA Steiniger, TH Lambert - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Visible-light photocatalysis and electrocatalysis are two powerful strategies for the promotion
of chemical reactions that have received tremendous attention in recent years. In contrast …

Photoelectrochemical asymmetric catalysis enables site-and enantioselective cyanation of benzylic C–H bonds

CY Cai, XL Lai, Y Wang, HH Hu, J Song, Y Yang… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The enantioselective functionalization of ubiquitous C (sp 3)–H bonds is ideally suited for
the construction of three-dimensional chiral structures. However, organic molecules often …

Electrocatalysis as an enabling technology for organic synthesis

LFT Novaes, J Liu, Y Shen, L Lu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemistry has recently gained increased attention as a versatile strategy for
achieving challenging transformations at the forefront of synthetic organic chemistry …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in visible light-activated radical coupling reactions triggered by (i) ruthenium,(ii) iridium and (iii) organic photoredox agents

JD Bell, JA Murphy - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoredox chemistry with organic or transition metal agents has been reviewed in earlier
years, but such is the pace of progress that we will overlap very little with earlier …

Photoelectrochemical asymmetric catalysis enables enantioselective heteroarylcyanation of alkenes via C–H functionalization

XL Lai, HC Xu - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
The asymmetric difunctionalization of alkenes, a method transforming readily accessible
alkenes into enantioenriched chiral structures of high value, has long been a focal point of …

Photoelectrochemical asymmetric catalysis enables direct and enantioselective decarboxylative cyanation

XL Lai, M Chen, Y Wang, J Song… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The development of efficient and sustainable methods for decarboxylative transformations is
of great importance due to the ease of availability and nontoxicity of carboxylic acids …

Synthetic molecular photoelectrochemistry: new frontiers in synthetic applications, mechanistic insights and scalability

S Wu, J Kaur, TA Karl, X Tian… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic photoelectrochemistry (PEC) is receiving increasing attention as a new frontier for
the generation and handling of reactive intermediates. PEC permits selective single …

Ketyl radical coupling enabled by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon electrophotocatalysts

JM Edgecomb, SN Alektiar, NGW Cowper… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report a new class of electrophotocatalysts, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,
that promote the reduction of unactivated carbonyl compounds to generate versatile ketyl …

Red light-based dual photoredox strategy resembling the Z-scheme of natural photosynthesis

F Glaser, OS Wenger - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photoredox catalysis typically relies on the use of single chromophores, whereas strategies,
in which two different light absorbers are combined, are rare. In photosystems I and II of …