Photoactive copper complexes: properties and applications

J Beaudelot, S Oger, S Perusko, TA Phan… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Photocatalyzed and photosensitized chemical processes have seen growing interest
recently and have become among the most active areas of chemical research, notably due …

A new era of LMCT: leveraging ligand-to-metal charge transfer excited states for photochemical reactions

AM May, JL Dempsey - Chemical Science, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT) excited states are capable of undergoing a wide
array of photochemical reactions, yet receive minimal attention compared to other charge …

Photo-and electro-chemical strategies for the activations of strong chemical bonds

X Tian, Y Liu, S Yakubov, J Schütte, S Chiba… - Chemical Society …, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The employment of light and/or electricity–alternatively to conventional thermal energy–
unlocks new reactivity paradigms as tools for chemical substrate activations. This leads to …

Photoelectrochemical asymmetric catalysis enables direct and enantioselective decarboxylative cyanation

XL Lai, M Chen, Y Wang, J Song… - Journal of the American …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
The development of efficient and sustainable methods for decarboxylative transformations is
of great importance due to the ease of availability and nontoxicity of carboxylic acids …

Photocatalytic C–H activation and the subtle role of chlorine radical complexation in reactivity

Q Yang, YH Wang, Y Qiao, M Gau, PJ Carroll… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
The functionalization of methane, ethane, and other alkanes derived from fossil fuels is a
central goal in the chemical enterprise. Recently, a photocatalytic system comprising …

Visible‐light‐induced homolysis of earth‐abundant metal‐substrate complexes: A complementary activation strategy in photoredox catalysis

Y Abderrazak, A Bhattacharyya… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The mainstream applications of visible‐light photoredox catalysis predominately involve
outer‐sphere single‐electron transfer (SET) or energy transfer (EnT) processes of precious …

Unveiling extreme photoreduction potentials of donor–acceptor cyanoarenes to access aryl radicals from aryl chlorides

J Xu, J Cao, X Wu, H Wang, X Yang… - Journal of the …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Since the seminal work of Zhang in 2016, donor–acceptor cyanoarene-based fluorophores,
such as 1, 2, 3, 5-tetrakis (carbazol-9-yl)-4, 6-dicyanobenzene (4CzIPN), have been widely …

A toolbox approach to construct broadly applicable metal-free catalysts for photoredox chemistry: deliberate tuning of redox potentials and importance of halogens in …

E Speckmeier, TG Fischer, K Zeitler - Journal of the American …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
The targeted choice of specific photocatalysts has been shown to play a critical role for the
successful realization of challenging photoredox catalytic transformations. Herein, we …

Photoinduced borylation for the synthesis of organoboron compounds: focus review

YM Tian, XN Guo, H Braunschweig, U Radius… - Chemical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Organoboron compounds have important synthetic value and can be applied in numerous
transformations. The development of practical and convenient ways to synthesize boronate …

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 …