Redox two-component initiated free radical and cationic polymerizations: Concepts, reactions and applications

P Garra, C Dietlin, F Morlet-Savary, F Dumur… - Progress in Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Redox polymerizations are of huge importance throughout academic and industrial polymer
science. Many authors propose the reaction of reducing (Red) and oxidizing (Ox) agents to …

Photophysics of perylene diimide dianions and their application in photoredox catalysis

H Li, OS Wenger - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The two‐electron reduced forms of perylene diimides (PDIs) are luminescent closed‐shell
species whose photochemical properties seem underexplored. Our proof‐of‐concept study …

Facile access to benzofuran derivatives through radical reactions with heteroatom-centered super-electron-donors

S Jiang, W Wang, C Mou, J Zou, Z **, G Hao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The development of suitable electron donors is critical to single-electron-transfer (SET)
processes. The use of heteroatom-centered anions as super-electron-donors (SEDs) for …

A Process Chemistry Benchmark for sp2–sp3 Cross Couplings

GL Beutner, EM Simmons, S Ayers… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
As sp2–sp3 disconnections gain acceptance in the medicinal chemist's toolbox, an
increasing number of potential drug candidates containing this motif are moving into the …

Neutral organic super electron donors made catalytic

S Rohrbach, RS Shah, T Tuttle… - Angewandte Chemie, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Neutral organic super electron donors (SEDs) display impressive reducing power but, until
now, it has not been possible to use them catalytically in radical chain reactions. This is …

Hypervalent Iodine Reagents Enable C–H Alkynylation with Iminophenylacetic Acids via Alkoxyl Radicals

Z Liu, Y Pan, P Zou, H Huang, Y Chen, Y Chen - Organic Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Here we report δ-C–H alkynylation to synthesize various δ-alkynols from iminophenylacetic
acids. The hypervalent iodine-coordinated benziodoxole-alkoxyl-iminophenylacetic acid …

Guanidines as Reagents in Proton-Coupled Electron-Transfer Reactions and Redox Catalysts

HJ Himmel - Synlett, 2018 - thieme-connect.com
Redox-active guanidines are ideal proton-coupled electron-transfer (PCET) reagents, since
they combine a high Brønsted basicity with a low and tunable redox potential. In this article …

Near‐Unity Molecular Do** Efficiency in Monolayer MoS2

M Yarali, Y Zhong, SN Reed, J Wang… - Advanced Electronic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Surface functionalization with organic electron donors (OEDs) is an effective do** strategy
for 2D materials, which can achieve do** levels beyond those possible with conventional …

Organic chemistry and synthesis rely more and more upon catalysts

P Vogel, KN Houk - Catalysts, 2022 - mdpi.com
A few months before the COVID-19 pandemic, Pierre Vogel and Kendall N. Houk published
with a new textbook Wiley-VCH,“Organic Chemistry: Theory, Reactivity, and Mechanisms in …

Expanding the chemical space of benzimidazole dicationic ionic liquids

A Mezzetta, L Guglielmero, A Mero, G Tofani… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Benzimidazole dicationic ionic liquids (BDILs) have not yet been widely explored in spite of
their potential. Therefore, two structurally related families of BDILs, paired with either …