Photons or electrons? A critical comparison of electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis for organic synthesis

NES Tay, D Lehnherr, T Rovis - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Redox processes are at the heart of synthetic methods that rely on either electrochemistry or
photoredox catalysis, but how do electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis compare? Both …

Visible light promoted cross-dehydrogenative coupling: a decade update

AK Bagdi, M Rahman, D Bhattacherjee… - Green …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The visible light promoted cross-dehydrogenative coupling reaction has emerged as an
excellent strategy for the direct formation of C–C/C–heteroatom bonds from simple …

Transition-metal-free coupling reactions

CL Sun, ZJ Shi - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal-catalyzed reactions have been studied since the very beginning of the past
century and represent a great success in organic chemistry, along with the birth and growth …

The Cross‐Dehydrogenative Coupling of C H Bonds: A Versatile Strategy for C C Bond Formations

SA Girard, T Knauber, CJ Li - … Chemie International Edition, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decade, substantial research has led to the introduction of an impressive
number of efficient procedures which allow the selective construction of C C bonds by …

Heterogeneous visible light photocatalysis for selective organic transformations

X Lang, X Chen, J Zhao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The future development of chemistry entails environmentally friendly and energy sustainable
alternatives for organic transformations. Visible light photocatalysis can address these …

Synthetic applications of eosin Y in photoredox catalysis

DP Hari, B König - Chemical Communications, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Eosin Y, a long known dye molecule, has recently been widely applied as a photoredox
catalyst in organic synthesis. Low cost and good availability make eosin Y an attractive …

En route to intermolecular cross-dehydrogenative coupling reactions

CY Huang, H Kang, J Li, CJ Li - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cross-coupling reaction between two C–H bonds has become a fundamental strategy in
synthetic organic chemistry. With its increasing importance in green chemistry, atom …

Evolution of BODIPY/aza-BODIPY dyes for organic photoredox/energy transfer catalysis

P Rana, N Singh, P Majumdar, SP Singh - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, photocatalysis has been established as a rapidly escalating
research area to catalyse the chemical reactions induced by visible light through single …

Visible‐light photoredox catalysis

J Xuan, WJ Xiao - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In the last few years, visible‐light initiated organic transformations have attracted increasing
attention. The development of visible‐light‐promoted photocatalytic reactions, which enable …

Merging visible light photoredox catalysis with metal catalyzed C–H activations: on the role of oxygen and superoxide ions as oxidants

DC Fabry, M Rueping - Accounts of chemical research, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The development of efficient catalytic systems for direct aromatic C–H bond
functionalization is a long-desired goal of chemists, because these protocols provide …