Recent Advances in Photoredox‐Mediated Radical Conjugate Addition Reactions: An Expanding Toolkit for the Giese Reaction

AL Gant Kanegusuku, JL Roizen - … Chemie International Edition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Photomediated Giese reactions are at the forefront of radical chemistry, much like the
classical tin‐mediated Giese reactions were nearly forty years ago. With the global …

Excited-state engineering in heteroleptic ionic iridium (III) complexes

F Monti, A Baschieri, L Sambri… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Iridium (III) complexes have assumed a prominent role in the areas of
photochemistry and photophysics due to the peculiar properties of both the metal itself and …

Rapid and Scalable Halosulfonylation of Strain‐Release Reagents

HD Pickford, V Ripenko, RE McNamee… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sulfonylated aromatics are commonplace motifs in drugs and agrochemicals. However,
methods for the direct synthesis of sulfonylated non‐classical arene bioisosteres, which …

Photochemical generation of radicals from alkyl electrophiles using a nucleophilic organic catalyst

B Schweitzer-Chaput, MA Horwitz, E de Pedro Beato… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Chemists extensively use free radical reactivity for applications in organic synthesis,
materials science, and life science. Traditionally, generating radicals requires strategies that …

Alcohols as Alkylating Agents: Photoredox‐Catalyzed Conjugate Alkylation via In Situ Deoxygenation

JZ Wang, HA Sakai, DWC MacMillan - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid exploration of sp3‐enriched chemical space is facilitated by fragment‐coupling
technologies that utilize simple and abundant alkyl precursors, among which alcohols are a …

Engaging sulfinate salts via Ni/photoredox dual catalysis enables facile C sp2–SO 2 R coupling

MJ Cabrera-Afonso, ZP Lu, CB Kelly, SB Lang… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
This report details the development and implementation of a strategy to construct aryl-and
heteroaryl sulfones via Ni/photoredox dual catalysis. Using aryl sulfinate salts, the C–S bond …

Photocatalytic carbanion generation–benzylation of aliphatic aldehydes to secondary alcohols

K Donabauer, M Maity, AL Berger, GS Huff… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a redox-neutral method for the photocatalytic generation of carbanions. Benzylic
carboxylates are photooxidized by single electron transfer; immediate CO2 extrusion and …

Radical Decyanations of Unactivated Carbon‐CN Bonds: Recent Achievements and Mechanistic Studies

J Huang, Z Chen - Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Decyanation is an important process in the synthesis of aromatic molecules in the studies of
pharmaceutical research, medical and materials sciences. In late‐stage modifications of …

An update on the use of sulfinate derivatives as versatile coupling partners in organic chemistry

J Aziz, A Hamze - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of sulfinic acids and their salts continues to be extensively developed in organic
chemistry. This is attributable to their dual capacity for acting as nucleophilic or electrophilic …

Aldehyde–Olefin Couplings Via Sulfoxylate-Mediated Oxidative Generation of Ketyl Radical Anions

Z Li, JA Tate, A Noble - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ketyl radicals are valuable reactive intermediates because they allow carbonyl chemistry to
be extended beyond traditional electrophilic reactivity through simple single-electron …