Iron photoredox catalysis–past, present, and future

LHM de Groot, A Ilic, J Schwarz… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photoredox catalysis of organic reactions driven by iron has attracted substantial attention
throughout recent years, due to potential environmental and economic benefits. In this …

Photoactive Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited States in 3d6 Complexes with Cr0, MnI, FeII, and CoIII

N Sinha, OS Wenger - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Many coordination complexes and organometallic compounds with the 4d6 and 5d6
valence electron configurations have outstanding photophysical and photochemical …

Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex

J Steube, A Kruse, OS Bokareva, T Reuter… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Although iron is a dream candidate to substitute noble metals in photoactive complexes,
realization of emissive and photoactive iron compounds is demanding due to the fast …

The great strides of iron photosensitizers for contemporary organic photoredox catalysis: On our way to the holy grail?

F Glaser, A Aydogan, B Elias… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
The scarcity of 2 nd and 3 rd row transition metals such as ruthenium, iridium, rhodium and
osmium, coupled with a global desire for sustainable chemistry has led to the resurgence of …

Red light-based dual photoredox strategy resembling the Z-scheme of natural photosynthesis

F Glaser, OS Wenger - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photoredox catalysis typically relies on the use of single chromophores, whereas strategies,
in which two different light absorbers are combined, are rare. In photosystems I and II of …

Direct evidence for excited ligand field state-based oxidative photoredox chemistry of a cobalt (III) polypyridyl photosensitizer

MM Alowakennu, A Ghosh… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Increasing interest in sustainable chemistry coupled with the quest to explore new reactivity
has spurred research on first-row transition metal complexes for potential applications in a …

Cobalt (III) carbene complex with an electronic excited-state structure similar to cyclometalated iridium (III) compounds

N Sinha, B Pfund, C Wegeberg… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Many organometallic iridium (III) complexes have photoactive excited states with mixed
metal-to-ligand and intraligand charge transfer (MLCT/ILCT) character, which form the basis …

Highly enantioselective radical cation [2+ 2] and [4+ 2] cycloadditions by chiral iron (III) photoredox catalysis

S Ohmura, K Katagiri, H Kato, T Horibe… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Radical cations show a unique reactivity that is fundamentally different from that of
conventional cations and have thus attracted considerable attention as alternative cationic …

High triplet energy iridium (III) isocyanoborato complex for photochemical upconversion, photoredox and energy transfer catalysis

L Schmid, F Glaser, R Schaer… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cyclometalated Ir (III) complexes are often chosen as catalysts for challenging photoredox
and triplet–triplet-energy-transfer (TTET) catalyzed reactions, and they are of interest for …

Oxidative two-state photoreactivity of a manganese (IV) complex using near-infrared light

NR East, R Naumann, C Förster, C Ramanan… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Highly reducing or oxidizing photocatalysts are a fundamental challenge in photochemistry.
Only a few transition metal complexes with Earth-abundant metal ions have so far advanced …