In recent years, visible light-induced transition metal catalysis has emerged as a new
paradigm in organic photocatalysis, which has led to the discovery of unprecedented …

Benefiting from the impressive increase in fundamental knowledge, the last 20 years have
shown a continuous burst of new ideas and consequently a plethora of new catalytic …

Asymmetric catalysis is a major theme of research in contemporary synthetic organic
chemistry. The discovery of general strategies for highly enantioselective photochemical …

For molecules with a singlet ground state, the population of triplet states is mainly possible
(a) by direct excitation and subsequent intersystem crossing or (b) by energy transfer from …

Naturally evolved enzymes, despite their astonishingly large variety and functional diversity,
operate predominantly through thermochemical activation. Integrating prominent …

Transition metal catalysis is of utmost importance for the development of sustainable
processes in academia and industry. The activity and selectivity of metal complexes are …

Energy transfer can leverage the enormous potential of excited-state reactivity. Through"
indirect excitation" of substrates, otherwise elusive reactivity modes can be switched on …

Synthesis of bicyclic scaffolds has attracted growing interest because they are of high
importance in modern pharmaceutical development. Here we report a strategy to access …

Harnessing visible light to access excited (triplet) states of organic compounds can enable
impressive reactivity modes. This tutorial review covers the photophysical fundamentals and …

Visible‐light photocatalysis is a rapidly developing and powerful strategy to initiate organic
transformations, as it closely adheres to the tenants of green and sustainable chemistry …