Visible light photocatalysis in the late-stage functionalization of pharmaceutically relevant compounds

R Cannalire, S Pelliccia, L Sancineto… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The late stage functionalization (LSF) of complex biorelevant compounds is a powerful tool
to speed up the identification of structure–activity relationships (SARs) and to optimize …

Direct decarboxylative Giese reactions

DM Kitcatt, S Nicolle, AL Lee - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The quest to find milder and more sustainable methods to generate highly reactive, carbon-
centred intermediates has led to a resurgence of interest in radical chemistry. In particular …

Decarboxylative cross-nucleophile coupling via ligand-to-metal charge transfer photoexcitation of Cu(ii) carboxylates

QY Li, SN Gockel, GA Lutovsky, KS DeGlopper… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Reactions that enable carbon–nitrogen, carbon–oxygen and carbon–carbon bond formation
lie at the heart of synthetic chemistry. However, substrate prefunctionalization is often …

Acridine‐Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) as Photocatalysts for Metallaphotocatalytic C− N Cross‐Coupling

M Traxler, S Gisbertz, P Pachfule… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are structurally tuneable, porous and crystalline
polymers constructed through the covalent attachment of small organic building blocks as …

Distorted carbon nitride nanosheets with activated n→ π* transition and preferred textural properties for photocatalytic CO2 reduction

R Wang, P Yang, S Wang, X Wang - Journal of Catalysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Ultrathin polymeric carbon nitride nanosheets (PCN-NSs) are considered as a promising
semiconductor photocatalyst for CO 2 reduction, but the achieved efficiency is still …

Copper-catalysed amination of alkyl iodides enabled by halogen-atom transfer

B Górski, AL Barthelemy, JJ Douglas, F Juliá… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the fact that nucleophilic displacement (SN2) of alkyl halides with nitrogen
nucleophiles is one of the first reactions introduced in organic chemistry teaching, its …

Photocatalytic direct decarboxylation of carboxylic acids to derivatize or degrade polymers

A Adili, AB Korpusik, D Seidel… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Visible light‐mediated direct decarboxylation of carboxylic acids with an acridine
photocatalyst is a convenient and powerful method to generate carbon‐centered radicals in …

Merging photoinduced iron-catalyzed decarboxylation with copper catalysis for C–N and C–C couplings

N Xiong, Y Li, R Zeng - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report a photoinduced iron/copper dual-catalytic strategy for the radical decarboxylation
functionalization of aliphatic carboxylic acids. The photoinduced ligand-to-iron charge …

Azolation of benzylic C–H bonds via photoredox-catalyzed carbocation generation

M Das, L Zamani, C Bratcher… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A visible-light photoredox-catalyzed method is reported that enables the coupling between
benzylic C–H substrates and N–H azoles. Classically, medicinally relevant N-benzyl azoles …

Functional group divergence and the structural basis of acridine photocatalysis revealed by direct decarboxysulfonylation

VT Nguyen, GC Haug, VD Nguyen, NTH Vuong… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The reactivity of the sulfonyl group varies dramatically from nucleophilic sulfinates through
chemically robust sulfones to electrophilic sulfonyl halides—a feature that has been used …