Acridinium salts and cyanoarenes as powerful photocatalysts: opportunities in organic synthesis

A Tlili, S Lakhdar - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The use of organic photocatalysts has revolutionized the field of photoredox catalysis, as it
allows access to reactivities that were traditionally restricted to transition‐metal …

Multi‐photon excitation in photoredox catalysis: concepts, applications, methods

F Glaser, C Kerzig, OS Wenger - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The energy of visible photons and the accessible redox potentials of common photocatalysts
set thermodynamic limits to photochemical reactions that can be driven by traditional visible …

Photoredox‐Catalyzed Defluorinative Functionalizations of Polyfluorinated Aliphatic Amides and Esters

JH Ye, P Bellotti, C Heusel… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Selective C− F bond functionalization of perfluoalkyl units has huge potential towards
accessing functionalized organofluorinated compounds, but remains challenging due to the …

Photocatalytic Dissolution of Precious Metals by TiO2 through Photogenerated Free Radicals

Y Chen, S Guan, H Ge, X Chen, Z Xu, Y Yue… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Exploring the pathways for photocatalytic dissolution of precious metals (PMs) is crucial for
optimizing recovery. In this work, we systematically investigated the selectivity and solvation …

A rational approach to organo‐photocatalysis: novel designs and structure‐property relationships

A Vega‐Peñaloza, J Mateos… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photocatalysts are emerging as viable and more sustainable tools than metal
complexes. Recently, the field of organo‐photocatalysis has experienced an explosion in …

Emerging organic photoredox catalysts for organic transformations

Y Lee, MS Kwon - European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A lot of efforts have been made for the development of novel organic photoredox catalysts
(PCs) due to their gratifying replacement for conventional transition metal‐based PCs in …

A General Light‐Driven Organocatalytic Platform for the Activation of Inert Substrates

S Wu, F Schiel, P Melchiorre - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their strong covalent bonds and low reduction potentials, activating inert substrates is
challenging. Recent advances in photoredox catalysis offered a number of solutions, each of …

Comparative evaluation of light‐driven catalysis: A framework for standardized reporting of data

D Ziegenbalg, A Pannwitz, S Rau… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Light‐driven homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis require a complex interplay
between light absorption, charge separation, charge transfer, and catalytic turnover. Optical …

Photocatalytic α‐Tertiary Amine Synthesis via C− H Alkylation of Unmasked Primary Amines

ASH Ryder, WB Cunningham, G Ballantyne… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A practical, catalytic entry to α, α, α‐trisubstituted (α‐tertiary) primary amines by C− H
functionalisation has long been recognised as a critical gap in the synthetic toolbox. We …

Photochemical In Situ Exfoliation of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Visible‐Light‐Driven CO2 Reduction

HL Zheng, SL Huang, MB Luo, Q Wei… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Two novel two‐dimensional metal–organic frameworks (2D MOFs), 2D‐M2TCPE (M= Co or
Ni, TCPE= 1, 1, 2, 2‐tetra (4‐carboxylphenyl) ethylene), which are composed of staggered …