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 …

Chiral photocatalyst structures in asymmetric photochemical synthesis

MJ Genzink, JB Kidd, WB Swords, TP Yoon - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Asymmetric catalysis is a major theme of research in contemporary synthetic organic
chemistry. The discovery of general strategies for highly enantioselective photochemical …

New redox strategies in organic synthesis by means of electrochemistry and photochemistry

J Liu, L Lu, D Wood, S Lin - ACS Central Science, 2020 - ACS Publications
As the breadth of radical chemistry grows, new means to promote and regulate single-
electron redox activities play increasingly important roles in driving modern synthetic …

The Hitchhiker's guide to biocatalysis: recent advances in the use of enzymes in organic synthesis

RA Sheldon, D Brady, ML Bode - Chemical science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Enzymes are excellent catalysts that are increasingly being used in industry and academia.
This perspective is primarily aimed at synthetic organic chemists with limited experience …

Single-electron oxidation-initiated enantioselective hydrosulfonylation of olefins enabled by photoenzymatic catalysis

Q Shi, XW Kang, Z Liu, P Sakthivel… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Controlling the enantioselectivity of hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) reactions has been a long-
standing synthetic challenge. While recent advances on photoenzymatic catalysis have …

Progress in Photoinduced Radical Reactions using Electron Donor‐Acceptor Complexes

L Zheng, L Cai, K Tao, Z **e, YL Lai… - Asian Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Photocatalyzed organic synthesis transformation is a remarkable green synthetic strategy
because of the advantages of operational simplicity, high chemoselectivities, cheap, and …

Photoenzymatic generation of unstabilized alkyl radicals: An asymmetric reductive cyclization

PD Clayman, TK Hyster - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Flavin-dependent “ene”-reductases can generate stabilized alkyl radicals when irradiated
with visible light; however, they are not known to form unstabilized radicals. Here, we report …

Photoenzymatic synthesis of α-tertiary amines by engineered flavin-dependent “ene”-reductases

X Gao, JR Turek-Herman, YJ Choi… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
α-Tertiary amines are a common motif in pharmaceutically important molecules but are
challenging to prepare using asymmetric catalysis. Here, we demonstrate engineered flavin …

Photon Equivalents as a Parameter for Scaling Photoredox Reactions in Flow: Translation of Photocatalytic C− N Cross‐Coupling from Lab Scale to Multikilogram …

EB Corcoran, JP McMullen, F Lévesque… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the development of new photocatalytic methods over recent decades, the translation of
these chemical reactions to industrial‐production scales using continuous‐flow reactors has …

Biocatalytic Generation of Trifluoromethyl Radicals by Nonheme Iron Enzymes for Enantioselective Alkene Difunctionalization

JG Zhang, AJ Huls, PM Palacios, Y Guo… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The trifluoromethyl (− CF3) group represents a highly prevalent functionality in
pharmaceuticals. Over the past few decades, significant advances have been made in the …