Multicomponent reactions and photo/electrochemistry join forces: atom economy meets energy efficiency

GA Coppola, S Pillitteri, EV Van der Eycken… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Visible-light photoredox catalysis has been regarded as an extremely powerful tool in
organic chemistry, bringing the spotlight back to radical processes. The versatility of …

Visible light photocatalysis in the late-stage functionalization of pharmaceutically relevant compounds

R Cannalire, S Pelliccia, L Sancineto… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The late stage functionalization (LSF) of complex biorelevant compounds is a powerful tool
to speed up the identification of structure–activity relationships (SARs) and to optimize …

Synthetic methods driven by the photoactivity of electron donor–acceptor complexes

GEM Crisenza, D Mazzarella… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The association of an electron-rich substrate with an electron-accepting molecule can
generate a new molecular aggregate in the ground state, called an electron donor–acceptor …

Bond-forming and-breaking reactions at sulfur (IV): sulfoxides, sulfonium salts, sulfur ylides, and sulfinate salts

D Kaiser, I Klose, R Oost, J Neuhaus… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Organosulfur compounds have long played a vital role in organic chemistry and in the
development of novel chemical structures and architectures. Prominent among these …

A general organocatalytic system for electron donor–acceptor complex photoactivation and its use in radical processes

E de Pedro Beato, D Spinnato, W Zhou… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report herein a modular class of organic catalysts that, acting as donors, can readily form
photoactive electron donor–acceptor (EDA) complexes with a variety of radical precursors …

Visible light-driven organic photochemical synthesis in China

Y Chen, LQ Lu, DG Yu, CJ Zhu, WJ Xiao - Science China Chemistry, 2019 - Springer
In recent years, visible light-driven organic photochemical synthesis has attracted wide
research interest from academic and industrial communities due to its features of green and …

Recent advances in the application of Diels–Alder reactions involving o-quinodimethanes, aza-o-quinone methides and o-quinone methides in natural product total …

B Yang, S Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent decades, transient and highly reactive ortho-quinodimethanes (o-QDMs), ortho-
quinone methides (o-QMs) and aza-ortho-quinone methides (aza-o-QMs) have attracted …

Generation of non-stabilized alkyl radicals from thianthrenium salts for C–B and C–C bond formation

C Chen, ZJ Wang, H Lu, Y Zhao, Z Shi - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Sulfonium salts bearing a positively charged sulfur atom with three organic substituents
have intrigued chemists for more than a century for their unusual structures and high …

Catalyst‐Free Deaminative Functionalizations of Primary Amines by Photoinduced Single‐Electron Transfer

J Wu, PS Grant, X Li, A Noble… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The use of pyridinium‐activated primary amines as photoactive functional groups for
deaminative generation of alkyl radicals under catalyst‐free conditions is described. By …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic reactions driven by electron-donor–acceptor (EDA) complexes

Z Yang, Y Liu, K Cao, X Zhang… - Beilstein Journal of …, 2021 - beilstein-journals.org
The reversible, weak ground-state aggregate formed by dipole–dipole interactions between
an electron donor and an electron acceptor is referred to as an electron-donor–acceptor …