Electrochemically Driven Hydrogen Atom Transfer Catalysis: A Tool for C(sp3)/Si–H Functionalization and Hydrofunctionalization of Alkenes

S Zhang, M Findlater - ACS catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrochemically driven hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) catalysis provides a complementary
approach for the transformation of redox-inactive substrates that would be inaccessible to …

Water-soluble tris (cyclometalated) iridium (III) complexes for aqueous electron and energy transfer photochemistry

MR Schreier, X Guo, B Pfund, Y Okamoto… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Cyclometalated iridium (III) complexes are frequently employed in organic light
emitting diodes, and they are popular photocatalysts for solar energy conversion and …

Visible light enables catalytic formation of weak chemical bonds with molecular hydrogen

Y Park, S Kim, L Tian, H Zhong, GD Scholes… - Nature chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
The synthesis of weak chemical bonds at or near thermodynamic potential is a fundamental
challenge in chemistry, with applications ranging from catalysis to biology to energy science …

The Carbene Cannibal: Photoinduced Symmetry-Breaking Charge Separation in an Fe(III) N-Heterocyclic Carbene

N Kaul, R Lomoth - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021 - ACS Publications
Photoinduced symmetry-breaking charge separation (SB-CS) processes offer the possibility
of harvesting solar energy by electron transfer between identical molecules. Here, we …

Ammonia synthesis by photocatalytic hydrogenation of a N2-derived molybdenum nitride

S Kim, Y Park, J Kim, TP Pabst, PJ Chirik - Nature Synthesis, 2022 - nature.com
Although metal complexes are known to split dinitrogen at ambient temperature and
pressure, the synthesis of ammonia from these compounds with H2 as the terminal reductant …

Light-driven reduction of aromatic olefins in aqueous media catalysed by aminopyridine cobalt complexes

C Casadevall, D Pascual, J Aragón, A Call… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
A catalytic system based on earth-abundant elements that efficiently hydrogenates aryl
olefins using visible light as the driving-force and H2O as the sole hydrogen atom source is …

Oxidase‐Type C− H/C− H Coupling Using an Isoquinoline‐Derived Organic Photocatalyst

L Zhang, B Pfund, OS Wenger, X Hu - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oxidase‐type oxidation is an attractive strategy in organic synthesis due to the use of O2 as
the terminal oxidant. Organic photocatalysis can effect metal‐free oxidase chemistry …

Photochemical formation of hydride using transition metal complexes and its application to photocatalytic reduction of the coenzyme NAD (P)+ and its model …

Y Matsubara, O Ishitani - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The photochemical formation of metal hydride complexes or organic hydride compounds
plays an important role in the conversion of light energy into the formation of chemical bonds …

Visible-Light-Driven, Iridium-Catalyzed Hydrogen Atom Transfer: Mechanistic Studies, Identification of Intermediates, and Catalyst Improvements

Y Park, L Tian, S Kim, TP Pabst, J Kim, GD Scholes… - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
The harvesting of visible light is a powerful strategy for the synthesis of weak chemical
bonds involving hydrogen that are below the thermodynamic threshold for spontaneous H2 …

Emergence of a distinct mechanism of C–N bond formation in photoenzymes

FC Raps, A Rivas-Souchet, CM Jones, TK Hyster - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
C–N bond formation is integral to modern chemical synthesis due to the ubiquity of nitrogen
heterocycles in small-molecule pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. Alkene hydroamination …