Technological innovations in photochemistry for organic synthesis: flow chemistry, high-throughput experimentation, scale-up, and photoelectrochemistry

L Buglioni, F Raymenants, A Slattery… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Photoinduced chemical transformations have received in recent years a tremendous amount
of attention, providing a plethora of opportunities to synthetic organic chemists. However …

Recent development of aryl diazonium chemistry for the derivatization of aromatic compounds

F Mo, D Qiu, L Zhang, J Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Aryl diazonium salts are versatile building blocks in organic synthesis. In light of the ever-
increasing importance of aryl diazonium salts spanning most disciplines of the chemical …

Desulfonylation via radical process: recent developments in organic synthesis

XQ Chu, D Ge, YY Cui, ZL Shen, CJ Li - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
As the “chemical chameleon”, sulfonyl-containing compounds and their variants have been
merged with various types of reactions for the efficient construction of diverse molecular …

Generation of alkyl radicals: from the tyranny of tin to the photon democracy

S Crespi, M Fagnoni - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Alkyl radicals are key intermediates in organic synthesis. Their classic generation from alkyl
halides has a severe drawback due to the employment of toxic tin hydrides to the point that …

Light in gold catalysis

S Witzel, ASK Hashmi, J **e - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Within the wide family of gold-catalyzed reactions, gold photocatalysis intrinsically features
unique elementary steps. When gold catalysis meets photocatalysis, a valence change of …

Carbon–sulfur bond formation via photochemical strategies: An efficient method for the synthesis of sulfur-containing compounds

D Yang, Q Yan, E Zhu, J Lv, WM He - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of green and convenient methods for C–S bond formation has received
significant attention because C–S bond widely occurs in many important pharmaceutical …

Visible photons as ideal reagents for the activation of coloured organic compounds

L Di Terlizzi, L Nicchio, S Protti… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent decades, the traceless nature of visible photons has been exploited for the
development of efficient synthetic strategies for the photoconversion of colourless …

Biaryl synthesis with arenediazonium salts: cross-coupling, CH-arylation and annulation reactions

FX Felpin, S Sengupta - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The rich legacy of arenediazonium salts in the synthesis of unsymmetrical biaryls, built
around the seminal works of Pschorr, Gomberg and Bachmann more than a century ago …

Concerted nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions

S Rohrbach, AJ Smith, JH Pang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent developments in experimental and computational chemistry have identified a rapidly
growing class of nucleophilic aromatic substitutions that proceed by concerted (cSNAr) …

Catalyst-free visible-light-initiated oxidative coupling of aryldiazo sulfones with thiols leading to unsymmetrical sulfoxides in air

Q Liu, L Wang, H Yue, JS Li, Z Luo, W Wei - Green Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A facile and efficient visible-light-driven method has been developed to construct sulfoxides
via oxidative coupling of aryldiazo sulfones with thiols using the O2 in air as the oxidant. This …