Mechanistic and kinetic studies of visible light photoredox reactions

ED Talbott, NL Burnett, JR Swierk - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The use of visible light to enable small molecule synthesis has grown substantially over the
last 15 years. While much of the focus has been on the development of new methods …

Molecular Design Principles to Elongate the Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited-State Lifetimes of Square-Planar Nickel (II) Complexes

T Ogawa, N Sinha, B Pfund, A Prescimone… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Square-planar NiII complexes and their electronically excited states play key roles in cross-
coupling catalysis and could offer new opportunities to complement well-known …

Elucidating the mechanism of excited-state bond homolysis in nickel–bipyridine photoredox catalysts

DA Cagan, D Bím, B Silva… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ni 2, 2′–bipyridine (bpy) complexes are commonly employed photoredox catalysts of bond-
forming reactions in organic chemistry. However, the mechanisms by which they operate are …

Metal-free photoinduced hydrogen atom transfer assisted C (sp 3)–H thioarylation

J Grover, G Prakash, C Teja, GK Lahiri, D Maiti - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
C− H thioarylation of hydrocarbon building blocks is a highly desirable synthetic
transformation because of its prevalence in various pharmaceuticals and organic functional …

Mechanisms of Photoredox Catalysis Featuring Nickel–Bipyridine Complexes

DA Cagan, D Bím, NP Kazmierczak, RG Hadt - ACS catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Metallaphotoredox catalysis can unlock useful pathways for transforming organic reactants
into desirable products, largely due to the conversion of photon energy into chemical …

Reconceptualizing the IrIII Role in Metallaphotoredox Catalysis: From Strong Photooxidant to Potent Energy Donor

S DiLuzio, L Kannadi Valloli, M Kudisch… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Dual IrIII/LnNiII metallaphotoredox catalyzed C (sp3)–C (sp2) cross-coupling reactions are
widely assumed to proceed by photoinduced single electron transfer steps due to the highly …

Photogenerated Ni(I)–Bipyridine Halide Complexes: Structure–Function Relationships for Competitive C(sp2)–Cl Oxidative Addition and Dimerization Reactivity …

DA Cagan, D Bím, BJ McNicholas… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report the facile photochemical generation of a library of Ni (I)–bpy halide complexes (Ni
(I)(Rbpy) X (R= t-Bu, H, MeOOC; X= Cl, Br, I) and benchmark their relative reactivity toward …

Ultrafast Photophysics of Ni (I)–Bipyridine Halide Complexes: Spanning the Marcus Normal and Inverted Regimes

E Sutcliffe, DA Cagan, RG Hadt - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Owing to their light-harvesting properties, nickel–bipyridine (bpy) complexes have found
wide use in metallaphotoredox cross-coupling reactions. Key to these transformations are Ni …

Light Activation and Photophysics of a Structurally Constrained Nickel (II)–Bipyridine Aryl Halide Complex

D Bím, KM Luedecke, DA Cagan, RG Hadt - Inorganic chemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal photoredox catalysis has transformed organic synthesis by harnessing light
to construct complex molecules. Nickel (II)–bipyridine (bpy) aryl halide complexes are a …

Mechanism of Ni-Catalyzed Photochemical Halogen Atom-Mediated C(sp3)–H Arylation

AQ Cusumano, BC Chaffin… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Within the context of Ni photoredox catalysis, halogen atom photoelimination from Ni has
emerged as a fruitful strategy for enabling hydrogen atom transfer (HAT)-mediated C (sp3) …