Sustainable protocols for direct C–H bond arylation of (hetero) arenes

G Albano, A Punzi, MAM Capozzi, GM Farinola - Green Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Direct C–H bond arylation of (hetero) arenes is a very convenient approach for the synthesis
of a wide variety of molecular targets, including compounds of pharmaceutical interest and π …

The electron is a catalyst

A Studer, DP Curran - Nature chemistry, 2014 - nature.com
The electron is an efficient catalyst for conducting various types of radical cascade reaction
that proceed by way of radical and radical ion intermediates. But because electrons are …

Reduction of aryl halides by consecutive visible light-induced electron transfer processes

I Ghosh, T Ghosh, JI Bardagi, B König - Science, 2014 - science.org
Biological photosynthesis uses the energy of several visible light photons for the challenging
oxidation of water, whereas chemical photocatalysis typically involves only single-photon …

KOtBu: A Privileged Reagent for Electron Transfer Reactions?

JP Barham, G Coulthard, KJ Emery… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Many recent studies have used KO t Bu in organic reactions that involve single electron
transfer; in the literature, the electron transfer is proposed to occur either directly from the …

Sensitization‐Initiated Electron Transfer for Photoredox Catalysis

I Ghosh, RS Shaikh, B König - … Chemie International Edition, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Photosynthetic organisms exploit antenna chromophores to absorb light and transfer
excitation energy to the reaction center where redox reactions occur. In contrast, in visible …

Scalable, metal-and additive-free, photoinduced borylation of haloarenes and quaternary arylammonium salts

AM Mfuh, JD Doyle, B Chhetri, HD Arman… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report herein a simple, metal-and additive-free, photoinduced borylation of haloarenes,
including electron-rich fluoroarenes, as well as arylammonium salts directly to boronic acids …

Organized aggregation makes insoluble perylene diimide efficient for the reduction of aryl halides via consecutive visible light-induced electron-transfer processes

L Zeng, T Liu, C He, D Shi, F Zhang… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The consecutive photo-induced electron-transfer (conPET) process found with perylene
diimide (PDI) overcomes the limitation of visible-light photocatalysis and sheds light on …

Simple and efficient generation of aryl radicals from aryl triflates: synthesis of aryl boronates and aryl iodides at room temperature

W Liu, X Yang, Y Gao, CJ Li - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Despite the wide use of aryl radicals in organic synthesis, current methods to prepare them
from aryl halides, carboxylic acids, boronic acids, and diazonium salts suffer from limitations …

Visible-light photoredox borylation of aryl halides and subsequent aerobic oxidative hydroxylation

M Jiang, H Yang, H Fu - Organic letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
Efficient and practical visible-light photoredox borylation of aryl halides and subsequent
aerobic oxidative hydroxylation were developed. The protocols use readily available aryl …

Long-lived, strongly emissive, and highly reducing excited states in Mo (0) complexes with chelating isocyanides

P Herr, F Glaser, LA Büldt, CB Larsen… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Newly discovered tris (diisocyanide) molybdenum (0) complexes are Earth-abundant
isoelectronic analogues of the well-known class of [Ru (α-diimine) 3] 2+ compounds with …