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 …

[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 …

Generation of alkyl radicals: from the tyranny of tin to the photon democracy

S Crespi, M Fagnoni - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Alkyl radicals are key intermediates in organic synthesis. Their classic generation from alkyl
halides has a severe drawback due to the employment of toxic tin hydrides to the point that …

Desulfonylation via radical process: recent developments in organic synthesis

XQ Chu, D Ge, YY Cui, ZL Shen, CJ Li - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
As the “chemical chameleon”, sulfonyl-containing compounds and their variants have been
merged with various types of reactions for the efficient construction of diverse molecular …

Beyond classical sulfone chemistry: metal-and photocatalytic approaches for C–S bond functionalization of sulfones

J Corpas, SH Kim-Lee, P Mauleón… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The exceptional versatility of sulfones has been extensively exploited in organic synthesis
across several decades. Since the first demonstration in 2005 that sulfones can participate …

Photoredox-mediated routes to radicals: the value of catalytic radical generation in synthetic methods development

JK Matsui, SB Lang, DR Heitz, GA Molander - ACS catalysis, 2017 - ACS Publications
Photoredox catalysis has experienced a revitalized interest from the synthesis community
during the past decade. For example, photoredox/Ni dual catalysis protocols have been …

Photoactive electron donor–acceptor complex platform for Ni-mediated C (sp 3)–C (sp 2) bond formation

LM Kammer, SO Badir, RM Hu, GA Molander - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A dual photochemical/nickel-mediated decarboxylative strategy for the assembly of C (sp3)–
C (sp2) linkages is disclosed. Under light irradiation at 390 nm, commercially available and …

Recent advances in the sulfonylation of alkenes with the insertion of sulfur dioxide via radical reactions

G Qiu, L Lai, J Cheng, J Wu - Chemical Communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advances in the sulfonylation of alkenes via the insertion of sulfur dioxide are
summarized. The sulfur dioxide surrogate of DABCO·(SO2) 2 or inorganic sulfites is used in …

Photoredox‐mediated net‐neutral radical/polar crossover reactions

RJ Wiles, GA Molander - Israel journal of chemistry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Radical/Polar Crossover (RPC) chemistry is a rapidly growing subset of photoredox
catalysis that is characterized by transformations featuring both radical and ionic modes of …

Umpolung difunctionalization of carbonyls via visible-light photoredox catalytic radical-carbanion relay

S Wang, BY Cheng, M Sršen… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The combination of photoredox catalysis with the Wolff–Kishner (WK) reaction allows the
difunctionalization of carbonyl groups by a radical-carbanion relay sequence (photo-Wolff …