Flow photochemistry: Old light through new windows
- Jonathan P. Knowles,
- Luke D. Elliott and
- Kevin I. Booker-Milburn
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 2025–2052, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.229
Graphical Abstract
Figure 1: An immersion-well batch reactor with 125 W medium pressure Hg lamp.
Figure 2: Transmission profile of a 0.05 M solution, ε = 200 M−1 cm−1.
Figure 3: Schematic of a typical microflow photochemical reactor (above) and detail of a triple-channel micro...
Figure 4: Schematic of a typical macroflow photochemical reactor (above) and images of the FEP photochemical ...
Scheme 1: [2 + 2] photocycloadditions of enones with enol derivatives.
Scheme 2: Competing reactions in an intramolecular [2 + 2] photocycloaddition.
Scheme 3: Diastereocontrolled cycloaddition of a cyclic enone with cyclopentene.
Scheme 4: Comparison of yields and reaction times for a batch reactor with a microflow system.
Scheme 5: Intramolecular [2 + 2] photocycloaddition.
Scheme 6: Paterno–Büchi reaction of benzophenone with an allylic alcohol.
Scheme 7: Photooxygenation of cyclopentadiene.
Scheme 8: Preparation of the anthelmintic ascaridole 23.
Scheme 9: Production of rose oxide 27 from (−)-β-citronellol (24).
Scheme 10: Photocatalytic alkylation of benzylamine.
Scheme 11: Photocatalytic reduction of 4-nitroacetophenone.
Scheme 12: Conversion of L-lysine to L-pipecolinic acid.
Scheme 13: Photocatalytic hydrodehalogenation.
Scheme 14: Photocatalytic aza-Henry reactions.
Scheme 15: Photocatalytic α-alkylation of aliphatic ketones.
Scheme 16: Decarboxylative photochemical additions.
Scheme 17: Photochemical addition of isopropanol to furanones.
Scheme 18: Photochemical addition of methanol to limonene.
Scheme 19: Light-promoted reduction of flavone.
Scheme 20: Photoreduction of benzophenone with benzhydrol.
Scheme 21: Barton reaction in a microflow system.
Scheme 22: Microflow synthesis of vitamin D3.
Scheme 23: photochemical chlorination of cyclohexane.
Scheme 24: photochemical cyanation of pyrene.
Scheme 25: Intermolecular [2 + 2] cycloaddition of maleimide (76) and intramolecular [2 + 2] cycloaddition of ...
Scheme 26: Intramolecular [5 + 2] cycloaddition of maleimide under flow conditions.
Scheme 27: Intramolecular [5 + 2] cycloaddition as a key step in the synthesis of (±)-neostenine.
Scheme 28: In situ generation of a thioaldehyde by photolysis of a phenacyl sulfide.
Scheme 29: Photodimerisation of maleic anhydride.
Scheme 30: [2 + 2] cycloaddition of a chiral enone with ethylene.
Scheme 31: Intramolecular [2 + 2] cycloaddition of a cyclopentenone.
Scheme 32: Photochemical Wolff rearrangement and cyclisation to β-lactams.
Scheme 33: Photochemical rearrangement of aryl azides.
Scheme 34: Rearrangement of quinoline N-oxides to quinolones.
Scheme 35: Photochemical rearrangement of cyclobutenones.
Scheme 36: Photoisomerisation en route to a vitamin-D derivative.
Scheme 37: Schematic of the Seeberger photooxygenation apparatus and sensitised photooxygenation of citronello...
Scheme 38: Sensitised photooxygenation of dihydroartemisinic acid.
Scheme 39: Photochemical preparation of CpRu(MeCN)3PF6.
Scheme 40: In situ photochemical generation and reaction of a [CpRu]+ catalyst.
Scheme 41: Intermolecular alkene–alkyne coupling with photogenerated catalyst.
Scheme 42: PET deoxygenation of nucleosides.
Scheme 43: Photochemical defluorination of DABFT.
Scheme 44: Aromatic azide reduction by visible-light-mediated photocatalysis.
Scheme 45: Examples of visible-light-mediated reactions.
Scheme 46: Visible-light-mediated formation of iminium ions.
Scheme 47: Examples of visible-light-mediated photocatalytic reactions.
Scheme 48: Anhydride formation from a visible-light-mediated process.
Scheme 49: Light-mediated conjugate addition of glycosyl bromide 141 to acrolein.
Scheme 50: Visible-light-mediated photocyclisation to [5]helicene.
