A review on photothermal conversion of solar energy with nanomaterials and nanostructures: from fundamentals to applications

P Cheng, D Wang, P Schaaf - Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar energy is a green, sustainable, and de facto inexhaustible energy source for mankind.
The conversion of solar energy into other forms of energy has attracted extensive research …

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 …

Photocatalytic hydrofluoroalkylation of alkenes with carboxylic acids

KJ Bian, YC Lu, D Nemoto Jr, SC Kao, X Chen… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Incorporation of fluoroalkyl motifs in pharmaceuticals can enhance the therapeutic profiles of
the parent molecules. The hydrofluoroalkylation of alkenes has emerged as a promising …

Recent advances in reactions involving carbon dioxide radical anion

W **ao, J Zhang, J Wu - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Carbon dioxide radical anion (CO2•–) is a highly reactive nucleophilic radical species that
has recently emerged in organic chemistry as a strong single electron donor (reductant) and …

Dicarboxylation of Alkenes with CO2 and Formate via Photoredox Catalysis

P Xu, S Wang, H Xu, YQ Liu, RB Li, WW Liu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Herein, a photocatalytic strategy for the synthesis of succinic acids by alkene dicarboxylation
with carbon dioxide (CO2) and formate salt as synergistic carbon sources is described. The …

Photoinduced copper-catalyzed C–N coupling with trifluoromethylated arenes

J Huang, Q Gao, T Zhong, S Chen, W Lin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Selective defluorinative functionalization of trifluoromethyl group (–CF3) is an attractive
synthetic route to the pharmaceutically privileged fluorine-containing moiety. Herein, we …

Arenethiolate as a dual function catalyst for photocatalytic defluoroalkylation and hydrodefluorination of trifluoromethyls

C Liu, K Li, R Shang - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Thiol is known to act as a hydrogen atom transfer catalyst working in synergy with a
photocatalyst in photoredox catalysis, but we report herein that an arene thiolate with an …

C− F bond activation enables synthesis of aryl difluoromethyl bicyclopentanes as benzophenone-type bioisosteres

M Chen, Y Cui, X Chen, R Shang, X Zhang - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Bioisosteric design has become an essential approach in the development of drug
molecules. Recent advancements in synthetic methodologies have enabled the rapid …

Recent discovery, development, and synthetic applications of formic acid salts in photochemistry

J Majhi, GA Molander - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The advancement of sustainable photoredox catalysis in synthetic organic chemistry has
evolved immensely because of the development of versatile and cost‐effective reagents. In …

Photoredox/HAT-Catalyzed Dearomative Nucleophilic Addition of the CO2 Radical Anion to (Hetero)Aromatics

SR Mangaonkar, H Hayashi, H Takano, W Kanna… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The radical anion of CO2 (CO2•–) is a strongly nucleophilic radical species with rapidly
emerging applications in contemporary organic chemistry. This radical species exhibits high …