Photons or electrons? A critical comparison of electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis for organic synthesis

NES Tay, D Lehnherr, T Rovis - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Redox processes are at the heart of synthetic methods that rely on either electrochemistry or
photoredox catalysis, but how do electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis compare? Both …

Photochemical and electrochemical applications of proton-coupled electron transfer in organic synthesis

PRD Murray, JH Cox, ND Chiappini, CB Roos… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present here a review of the photochemical and electrochemical applications of multi-
site proton-coupled electron transfer (MS-PCET) in organic synthesis. MS-PCETs are redox …

Theoretical modeling of electrochemical proton-coupled electron transfer

RE Warburton, AV Soudackov… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) plays an essential role in a wide range of
electrocatalytic processes. A vast array of theoretical and computational methods have been …

Covalent organic framework photocatalysts: structures and applications

H Wang, H Wang, Z Wang, L Tang, G Zeng… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In the light of increasing energy demand and environmental pollution, it is urgently required
to find a clean and renewable energy source. In these years, photocatalysis that uses solar …

Artificial photosynthesis: opportunities and challenges of molecular catalysts

B Zhang, L Sun - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular catalysis plays an essential role in both natural and artificial photosynthesis (AP).
However, the field of molecular catalysis for AP has gradually declined in recent years …

Molecular catalysts with diphosphine ligands containing pendant amines

ES Wiedner, AM Appel, S Raugei, WJ Shaw… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Pendant amines play an invaluable role in chemical reactivity, especially for molecular
catalysts based on earth-abundant metals. As inspired by [FeFe]-hydrogenases, which …

Electro-and solar-driven fuel synthesis with first row transition metal complexes

KE Dalle, J Warnan, JJ Leung, B Reuillard… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of renewable fuels from abundant water or the greenhouse gas CO2 is a
major step toward creating sustainable and scalable energy storage technologies. In the last …

Molecular Catalysis of Energy Relevance in Metal–Organic Frameworks: From Higher Coordination Sphere to System Effects

NF Suremann, BD McCarthy, W Gschwind… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The modularity and synthetic flexibility of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have provoked
analogies with enzymes, and even the term MOFzymes has been coined. In this review, we …

When light meets nitrogen-centered radicals: from reagents to catalysts

XY Yu, QQ Zhao, J Chen, WJ **ao… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Nitrogen-centered radicals (NCRs) are a versatile class of highly reactive
species that have a longer history than the classical carbon-based radicals in synthetic …

Intercepting hydrogen evolution with hydrogen-atom transfer: electron-initiated hydrofunctionalization of alkenes

X Wu, CN Gannett, J Liu, R Zeng… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen-atom transfer mediated by earth-abundant transition-metal hydrides (M-Hs) has
emerged as a powerful tool in organic synthesis. Current methods to generate M-Hs most …