Bioinspired Supercharging of Photoredox Catalysis for Applications in Energy and Chemical Manufacturing

A Millet, PT Cesana, K Sedillo, MJ Bird… - Accounts of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus For more than a decade, photoredox catalysis has been demonstrating that
when photoactive catalysts are irradiated with visible light, reactions occur under milder …

Cobalt (III) carbene complex with an electronic excited-state structure similar to cyclometalated iridium (III) compounds

N Sinha, B Pfund, C Wegeberg… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Many organometallic iridium (III) complexes have photoactive excited states with mixed
metal-to-ligand and intraligand charge transfer (MLCT/ILCT) character, which form the basis …

Photoredox‐Catalyzed Decarboxylative Bromination, Chlorination and Thiocyanation Using Inorganic Salts

J Wu, C Shu, Z Li, A Noble… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Decarboxylative halogenation reactions of alkyl carboxylic acids are highly valuable
reactions for the synthesis of structurally diverse alkyl halides. However, many reported …

High triplet energy iridium (III) isocyanoborato complex for photochemical upconversion, photoredox and energy transfer catalysis

L Schmid, F Glaser, R Schaer… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cyclometalated Ir (III) complexes are often chosen as catalysts for challenging photoredox
and triplet–triplet-energy-transfer (TTET) catalyzed reactions, and they are of interest for …

The cost of quantum yield

JR Swierk - Organic Process Research & Development, 2023 - ACS Publications
The quantum yield (QY) of a photocatalytic reaction significantly influences its performance,
as reactions with low QYs require more intense light sources and longer illumination times to …

Radical redox annulations: a general light-driven method for the synthesis of saturated heterocycles

PRD Murray, INM Leibler, SM Hell, E Villalona… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We introduce here a two-component annulation strategy that provides access to a diverse
collection of five-and six-membered saturated heterocycles from aryl alkenes and a family of …

Selenoviologen‐Appendant Metallacycles with Highly Stable Radical Cations and Long‐Lived Charge Separation States for Electrochromism and Photocatalysis

S Zhang, L Ma, W Ma, L Chen, K Gao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Two coordinated metallacycles (rhomboid for M1, hexagonal for M2) with selenoviologens
(SeV2+) pendants were synthesized via coordination‐driven hierarchical self‐assembly …

Understanding Ir (III) photocatalyst structure–activity relationships: a highly parallelized study of light-driven metal reduction processes

S DiLuzio, TU Connell, V Mdluli… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
High-throughput synthesis and screening methods were used to measure the
photochemical activity of 1440 distinct heteroleptic [Ir (C^ N) 2 (N^ N)]+ complexes for the …

Maximizing Photon-to-Electron Conversion for Atom Efficient Photoredox Catalysis

F Draper, S DiLuzio, HJ Sayre, LN Pham… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Photoredox catalysis is a powerful tool to access challenging and diverse syntheses.
Absorption of visible light forms the excited state catalyst (* PC) but photons may be wasted …

Nanoscale and ultrafast in situ techniques to probe plasmon photocatalysis

CC Carlin, AX Dai, A Al-Zubeidi… - Chemical Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Plasmonic photocatalysis uses the light-induced resonant oscillation of free electrons in a
metal nanoparticle to concentrate optical energy for driving chemical reactions. By altering …