Recent advances in stable main group element radicals: preparation and characterization

Z Feng, S Tang, Y Su, X Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Radical species are significant in modern chemistry. Their unique chemical bonding and
novel physicochemical properties play significant roles not only in fundamental chemistry …

NHCs in main group chemistry

V Nesterov, D Reiter, P Bag, P Frisch, R Holzner… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Since the discovery of the first stable N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) in the beginning of the
1990s, these divalent carbon species have become a common and available class of …

Selective [2σ+ 2σ] cycloaddition enabled by boronyl radical catalysis: synthesis of highly substituted bicyclo [3.1. 1] heptanes

T Yu, J Yang, Z Wang, Z Ding, M Xu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In contrast to the traditional and widely-used cycloaddition reactions involving at least a π
bond component, a [2σ+ 2σ] radical cycloaddition between bicyclo [1.1. 0] butanes (BCBs) …

Structurally constrained boron-, nitrogen-, silicon-, and phosphorus-centered polycyclic π-conjugated systems

M Hirai, N Tanaka, M Sakai, S Yamaguchi - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Incorporation of main group elements into the π-conjugated frameworks is a sophisticated
strategy to alter the fundamental nature of the parent conjugated π-systems, giving rise to …

Principles, synthesis and applications of dual Z-scheme photocatalysts

X Li, H Sun, Y Xie, Y Liang, X Gong, P Qin… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
The design and preparation of dual Z-scheme photocatalytic system with stable and
powerful redox ability, has became an effective strategy to solve the environmental pollution …

Unconventional singlet fission materials

T Ullrich, D Munz, DM Guldi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Singlet fission (SF) is a photophysical downconversion pathway, in which a singlet excitation
transforms into two triplet excited states. As such, it constitutes an exciton multiplication …

Lewis base–boryl radicals enabled borylation reactions and selective activation of carbon–heteroatom bonds

TY Peng, FL Zhang, YF Wang - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The past decades have witnessed tremendous progress on radical reactions.
However, in comparison with carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other main group element …

Artificial Z-scheme photocatalytic system: What have been done and where to go?

D Huang, S Chen, G Zeng, X Gong, C Zhou… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
Artificial Z-scheme photocatalysis has become a potential solution for resisting
environmental degradation and to the worldwide energy shortage because they can …

Advances in chemistry of N-heterocyclic carbene boryl radicals

T Taniguchi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Boron-centred radicals (boryl radicals) are potential and attractive species in main group
chemistry and synthetic chemistry. Recently, the development of boron compounds ligated …

Visible‐Light‐Induced Selective Defluoroborylation of Polyfluoroarenes, gem‐Difluoroalkenes, and Trifluoromethylalkenes

W Xu, H Jiang, J Leng, HW Ong, J Wu - Angewandte Chemie, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorinated organoboranes serve as versatile synthetic precursors for the preparation of
value‐added fluorinated organic compounds. Recent progress has been mainly focused on …