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Recent developments in enantioselective photocatalysis

  • Callum Prentice,
  • James Morrisson,
  • Andrew D. Smith and
  • Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2363–2441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.197

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  • ][33]. When an alkylating agent containing an aryl ring 40 (e.g., phenacyl/benzyl bromides) is used, the enamine intermediate 41 forms a coloured electron-donor acceptor (EDA) complex that can absorb visible light via an intermolecular charge-transfer state (EDA route) [14][34]. Mechanistic
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Published 29 Sep 2020

Formation of an exceptionally stable ketene during phototransformations of bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-5-en-2-ones having mixed chromophores

  • Asitanga Ghosh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2297–2303, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.190

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  • photoproduct 6g was obtained when 3g was irradiated [10]. In all of the molecules, the bridgehead positions contain only electron-donor groups (such as OMe, Me, etc.), but same type of rigid enones having electron deficient groups at the bridgehead positions have not been checked so far. To bridge this gap, we
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Published 15 Sep 2020

Styryl-based new organic chromophores bearing free amino and azomethine groups: synthesis, photophysical, NLO, and thermal properties

  • Anka Utama Putra,
  • Deniz Çakmaz,
  • Nurgül Seferoğlu,
  • Alberto Barsella and
  • Zeynel Seferoğlu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2282–2296, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.189

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  • materials. Nowadays, organic NLO materials bearing strong donor–acceptor groups with a π-bridge have shown extensive usages in signal processing, optical storage, and telecommunication devices [4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. The flexibility to change electron-donor and acceptor groups in the molecules allows to
  • responses. Based on the results in Table 2, the Egap values obtained from the ground state geometries of the dyes changed as: 3 < 4 ≈ 5 < 6 < 7 for dyes 3–7 and 8 < 9 ≈ 10 < 11 < 12 for dyes 8–12. The smallest Egap was obtained for dyes 3 and 8 due to the presence of the strongest electron-donor group
  • enhancement) upon addition of 15 equiv OH−, thus reflecting its superior sensitivity among the others (Supporting Information File 1). The increased emission intensity and the formation of a new absorption band could likely be due to the formation of a phenoxide group, which is a more pronounced electron
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Published 14 Sep 2020

Photosensitized direct C–H fluorination and trifluoromethylation in organic synthesis

  • Shahboz Yakubov and
  • Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2151–2192, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.183

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Synthesis of 3(2)-phosphonylated thiazolo[3,2-a]oxopyrimidines

  • Ksenia I. Kaskevich,
  • Anastasia A. Babushkina,
  • Vladislav V. Gurzhiy,
  • Dmitrij M. Egorov,
  • Nataly I. Svintsitskaya and
  • Albina V. Dogadina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1947–1954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.161

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  • (6)-substituted 2-thiouracils. The reaction of chloroethynylphosphonates with 6-substituted 2-thiouracils bearing electron-donor groups (CH3, Ph) proceeded with high regioselectivity involving the cyclization through the N3-nitrogen atom to form new 3-phosphonylated thiazolo[3,2-a]-5-oxopyrimidines
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Published 10 Aug 2020

Heterogeneous photocatalysis in flow chemical reactors

  • Christopher G. Thomson,
  • Ai-Lan Lee and
  • Filipe Vilela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1495–1549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.125

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  • interest in g-C3N4 photocatalysts was generated in 2009 by Wang, Domen, and co-workers, who reported the metal-free photolysis of water was possible with the all-organic semiconductor material, a sacrificial electron donor, and visible light irradiation [120]. Prior to this report, poly(p-phenylene) had
  • photocatalyst for the reduction of aryl halides [193]. The material could undergo consecutive photoinduced electron transfers (ConPET) in which the material enters an excited state and is reduced by a sacrificial electron donor (NEt3). The resulting Zn-PDI radical anion then undergoes a second photon absorption
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Published 26 Jun 2020

Photocatalyzed syntheses of phenanthrenes and their aza-analogues. A review

  • Alessandra Del Tito,
  • Havall Othman Abdulla,
  • Davide Ravelli,
  • Stefano Protti and
  • Maurizio Fagnoni

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1476–1488, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.123

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  • absorbing EDA (electron donor–acceptor) complexes with Et3N. Thus, a good variety of highly functionalized phenanthridines was prepared in excellent yields [80]. Another approach for the visible-light-promoted generation of iminyl radicals (e.g., 16.2·a,b) involved the addition of electrophilic radicals
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Published 25 Jun 2020

Distinctive reactivity of N-benzylidene-[1,1'-biphenyl]-2-amines under photoredox conditions

  • Shrikant D. Tambe,
  • Kwan Hong Min,
  • Naeem Iqbal and
  • Eun Jin Cho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1335–1342, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.114

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  • partner and an electron donor in the photoredox cycle (Scheme 1c). It is likely that the presence of the additional phenyl group in the substrate stabilizes the α-amino radical intermediate and modulates its reactivity [46][47]. In addition to the cross-coupled 1,2-diamines, we envisioned the generation
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Published 18 Jun 2020

Oxime radicals: generation, properties and application in organic synthesis

  • Igor B. Krylov,
  • Stanislav A. Paveliev,
  • Alexander S. Budnikov and
  • Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1234–1276, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.107

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  • radical mechanism in which the iminoxyl radical is generated from the oxime anion under the action of perfluorobutyl iodide through the formation of an EDA complex (electron donor–acceptor complex, which is also called charge-transfer complex). The perfluorobutyl radical formed at this step served for the
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Published 05 Jun 2020

Photocatalysis with organic dyes: facile access to reactive intermediates for synthesis

  • Stephanie G. E. Amos,
  • Marion Garreau,
  • Luca Buzzetti and
  • Jerome Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1163–1187, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.103

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  • photocatalysts interact with organic molecules via three main pathways: electron transfer (ET), EnT, and atom transfer (AT). In the first case (Scheme 1, box 1), the excited photocatalyst (PC*) undergoes a single-electron transfer (SET) with a suitable electron acceptor A or electron donor D. In an oxidative
  • quenching cycle, PC* acts as a reductant donating an electron to A. This generates the oxidized form of the photocatalyst, PC•+, and a reduced acceptor, A•−. Alternatively, in a reductive quenching cycle, PC* acts as an oxidant promoting an SET oxidation of the electron donor D. This leads to the reduced
  • photocatalyst PC•− and the oxidized donor D•+. Following this initial SET, a second electron transfer must occur to ensure the catalyst turnover and restore the ground state photocatalyst: PC•+ needs to be reduced by an electron donor D, whereas PC•− needs to undergo an oxidation by an electron acceptor A. In
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Published 29 May 2020

Recent applications of porphyrins as photocatalysts in organic synthesis: batch and continuous flow approaches

  • Rodrigo Costa e Silva,
  • Luely Oliveira da Silva,
  • Aloisio de Andrade Bartolomeu,
  • Timothy John Brocksom and
  • Kleber Thiago de Oliveira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 917–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.83

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  • , respectively (both vs saturated calomel electrode (SCE)). These data indicate that the excited state of TPP is a more efficient electron donor than its ground state. At the same time, the reduction potential value suggests that the excited state of TPP (E1/2(TPP*/TPP−•) = +0.42 V vs SCE) is a more efficient
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Published 06 May 2020

Photocatalytic deaminative benzylation and alkylation of tetrahydroisoquinolines with N-alkylpyrydinium salts

  • David Schönbauer,
  • Carlo Sambiagio,
  • Timothy Noël and
  • Michael Schnürch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 809–817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.74

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  • , electrophilic alkyl radicals were used in several transformations, such as electrophilic cross couplings under nickel catalysis, either with boronic acids [35] or different (aryl)halides [36][37][38]. Furthermore, visible light-promoted uncatalyzed electron transfer via the formation of electron donor–acceptor
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Published 21 Apr 2020

Towards triptycene functionalization and triptycene-linked porphyrin arrays

  • Gemma M. Locke,
  • Keith J. Flanagan and
  • Mathias O. Senge

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 763–777, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.70

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  • candidates to study the potential electron donor–acceptor dyads [19]. Triptycene (1) consists of three benzene rings fused to a bicyclo[2.2.2]octane (BCO) skeleton, it is rigid, isolating and amenable to a wide range of chemical transformations. Due to the 120° rigid void, mono-, di-, tri-, tetra-, penta
  • significantly more enhanced, in comparison to the practically quenched fluorescence detected for the zinc-nickel dimer 16 which may be due to the electron-deficient nature of the nickel porphyrin [47]. In this instance, the excited zinc porphyrin is acting as electron donor while the electronically inactive
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Published 17 Apr 2020

Visible-light-induced addition of carboxymethanide to styrene from monochloroacetic acid

  • Kaj M. van Vliet,
  • Nicole S. van Leeuwen,
  • Albert M. Brouwer and
  • Bas de Bruin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 398–408, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.38

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  • generation of hydrated electrons and applied that for the dehalogenation of monochloroacetic acid [32][33]. However, to the best of our knowledge, a photoredox catalyzed application of monochloroacetic acid without using a sacrificial electron donor is not known. Interestingly, monochloroacetic acid also
  • nucleophilic substitution and resulted in very low yields. Sodium ascorbate was also added to investigate whether a sacrificial electron donor could increase the yields, but this was not observed. Interestingly, the reaction with sodium ascorbate favored the formation of lactone 1 over linear acid 3. The exact
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Synthesis, liquid crystalline behaviour and structure–property relationships of 1,3-bis(5-substituted-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)benzenes

  • Afef Mabrouki,
  • Malek Fouzai,
  • Armand Soldera,
  • Abdelkader Kriaa and
  • Ahmed Hedhli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 149–158, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.17

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  • hydrocarbon chain are mutually neutralized. In (CF2)m segment, Hasegawa et al. noted that the local dipoles Cδ+–Fδ− cannot be cancelled out and the surface of fluorocarbon chain remains polar [38]. Interaction rigid core-terminal chains The typical model for aromatic electron donor–acceptor (D–A) interactions
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Published 31 Jan 2020

Chemical tuning of photoswitchable azobenzenes: a photopharmacological case study using nicotinic transmission

  • Lorenzo Sansalone,
  • Jun Zhao,
  • Matthew T. Richers and
  • Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2812–2821, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.274

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  • . Since the latter has an oxygen atom para to the azo group we tested the feasibility of adding such a strong electron donor to an analog of a difluoro-(2F)AB Hecht photochrome [13] by making "MeO-2FAB" (Figure 1, see Supporting Information File 1 for synthesis). Since 2FAB and 4FAB photochromes with
  • the electron donor effect of the methylene substituent decreases the thermodynamic stability of the cis form compared to that report by Hecht [13], protein conjugates of 1 would be highly stable in vivo over the course of a typical daily mouse behavioral experiment [15]. cis-MAHoCh has a significantly
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Published 21 Nov 2019

Synthesis of aryl-substituted thieno[3,2-b]thiophene derivatives and their use for N,S-heterotetracene construction

  • Nadezhda S. Demina,
  • Nikita A. Kazin,
  • Nikolay A. Rasputin,
  • Roman A. Irgashev and
  • Gennady L. Rusinov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2678–2683, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.261

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  • arylhydrazines 5b–d containing electron–acceptor substituents or electrondonor ones. There was no obvious change in the yields of compounds 6l–o (78–84%, Scheme 3), which may indicate that the starting ketones had a rather high reactivity. To confirm the structure of TTI derivatives 6, we attempted to grow
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Arylisoquinoline-derived organoboron dyes with a triaryl skeleton show dual fluorescence

  • Vânia F. Pais,
  • Tristan Neumann,
  • Ignacio Vayá,
  • M. Consuelo Jiménez,
  • Abel Ros and
  • Uwe Pischel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2612–2622, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.254

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  • the verification of the effect of aromatic conjugation (naphthyl, anthryl, pyrenyl) and electron-donor strength (naphthyl versus 4-methoxynaphthyl) on the photophysical properties. Beside the observation of interesting dual emission properties for these dyes, some showed a pronounced ratiometric
  • two stereogenic axes. The dyes show pronounced dual emission patterns with long-wavelength maxima close to 600 nm in polar solvents such as acetonitrile or dimethyl sulfoxide. The emission maxima of the long-wavelength band vary systematically with the electron-donor strength of the additional aryl
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1,2,3,4-Tetrahydro-1,4,5,8-tetraazaanthracene revisited: properties and structural evidence of aromaticity loss

  • Arnault Heynderickx,
  • Sébastien Nénon,
  • Olivier Siri,
  • Vladimir Lokshin and
  • Vladimir Khodorkovsky

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2059–2068, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.203

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  • led to variation of its electron donor/acceptor capability that allowed fine-tuning the absorption properties. The propensity of these compounds and a number of its derivatives to form infinite chains involving >N–H···N= and >N–H···Hal−···N+ atoms is demonstrated by X-ray structure analysis. The DFT
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Conformational signature of Ishikawa´s reagent using NMR information from diastereotopic fluorines

  • Laize A. F. Andrade,
  • Lucas A. Zeoly,
  • Rodrigo A. Cormanich and
  • Matheus P. Freitas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 506–512, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.44

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  • interaction nX → σ*C–H/F (X = electron donor atom, usually oxygen) seems to contribute to the magnitude of 1JC–H/F, since the resonance structure originated from this interaction exhibits a longer and weaker C–Hax/Fax bond relative to C–Heq/Feq, thus reducing 1JC–Hax/Fax relative to 1JC–Heq/Feq. In turn, the
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Published 20 Feb 2019

Syntheses and chemical properties of β-nicotinamide riboside and its analogues and derivatives

  • Mikhail V. Makarov and
  • Marie E. Migaud

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 401–430, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.36

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  • ]. Many of these complexes contain rhodium or iridium coordinated with fully (methyl)substituted cyclopentadienyl ligands and bis-coordinating diamino ligands as shown in Figure 7. The reducing agent may be a formate anion as a source of hydride, triethanolamine as an electron donor in the case of
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Silanediol versus chlorosilanol: hydrolyses and hydrogen-bonding catalyses with fenchole-based silanes

  • Falco Fox,
  • Jörg M. Neudörfl and
  • Bernd Goldfuss

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 167–186, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.17

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  • interactions (3502 cm−1 to 22.16 kcal mol−1 vs 3830 cm−1 to 3.06 kcal mol−1, Table 4, entries 5 and 7). With a stronger electron donor, as the chloride ion, the lone pair···σ* orbital interactions rises (36.87 kcal mol−1 vs 50.97 kcal mol−1, Table 4, entries 11 and 12). In here, the BIFOXSi(OH)2 (9) binds the
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Organometallic vs organic photoredox catalysts for photocuring reactions in the visible region

  • Aude-Héloise Bonardi,
  • Frédéric Dumur,
  • Guillaume Noirbent,
  • Jacques Lalevée and
  • Didier Gigmes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3025–3046, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.282

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  • created as illustrated in Figure 1 to regenerate the PC. As illustrated, for an oxidative cycle, the excited photocatalyst (PC*) reacts first with an electron acceptor (also named oxidation agent, OA1 in Figure 1) which leads to PC●+ and OA1●− . Then, PC can be regenerated with an electron donor (also
  • mechanisms. From a single or triplet state of the photoredox catalyst, an electron is transferred. According to Rehm–Weller, an electron can be transferred from the electron donor to the electron acceptor in the excited state if the free energy change ∆Get is negative. ∆Get can be calculated from the
  • equation: where Eox is the oxidation potential of the electron donor, Ered the reduction potential of the electron acceptor, E* the excited state energy level and C the coulombic term for the initially formed ion pair (if there are ions in solution). For polar solvent, C is neglected. (TMS)3SiH is not
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Published 12 Dec 2018

Cobalt- and rhodium-catalyzed carboxylation using carbon dioxide as the C1 source

  • Tetsuaki Fujihara and
  • Yasushi Tsuji

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2435–2460, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.221

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  • et al. reported the Rh-catalyzed hydrocarboxylation of alkenes driven by visible-light irradiation conditions in the presence of a photoredox catalyst (Scheme 37) [75]. A model reaction using 4-cyanostyrene (40a) was carried out using iPrNEt2 as a sacrificial electron donor in the presence of [Ru(bpy
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Published 19 Sep 2018

Revisiting ring-degenerate rearrangements of 1-substituted-4-imino-1,2,3-triazoles

  • James T. Fletcher,
  • Matthew D. Hanson,
  • Joseph A. Christensen and
  • Eric M. Villa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2098–2105, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.184

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  • rearrange by a ring-degenerate process promoted by an increasing electron-donor strength of the imine functionality. It was further demonstrated that this rearrangement could be utilized as a reliable synthetic tool, with 1-phenyl-1H-1,2,3-triazole-4-carbaldehyde being used to prepare 1-substituted-4-formyl
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