Electrocatalysis as an enabling technology for organic synthesis

Chemical Society Reviews, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 50(14), С. 7941 - 8002

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2021

Electrochemistry has recently gained increased attention as a versatile strategy for achieving challenging transformations at the forefront of synthetic organic chemistry. Electrochemistry's unique ability to generate highly reactive radical and ion intermediates in controlled fashion under mild conditions inspired development number new electrochemical methodologies preparation valuable chemical motifs. Particularly, recent developments electrosynthesis have featured an use redox-active electrocatalysts further enhance control over selective formation downstream reactivity these intermediates. Furthermore, electrocatalytic mediators enable proceed manner that is mechanistically distinct from purely methods, allowing subversion kinetic thermodynamic obstacles encountered conventional synthesis. This review highlights key innovations within past decade area electrocatalysis, with emphasis on mechanisms catalyst design principles underpinning advancements. A host oxidative reductive are discussed grouped according classification transformation nature electrocatalyst.

Язык: Английский

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Technological Innovations in Photochemistry for Organic Synthesis: Flow Chemistry, High-Throughput Experimentation, Scale-up, and Photoelectrochemistry

Chemical Reviews, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 122(2), С. 2752 - 2906

Опубликована: Авг. 10, 2021

Photoinduced chemical transformations have received in recent years a tremendous amount of attention, providing plethora opportunities to synthetic organic chemists. However, performing photochemical transformation can be quite challenge because various issues related the delivery photons. These challenges barred widespread adoption steps industry. past decade, several technological innovations led more reproducible, selective, and scalable photoinduced reactions. Herein, we provide comprehensive overview these exciting advances, including flow chemistry, high-throughput experimentation, reactor design scale-up, combination photo- electro-chemistry.

Язык: Английский

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Photons or Electrons? A Critical Comparison of Electrochemistry and Photoredox Catalysis for Organic Synthesis

Chemical Reviews, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 122(2), С. 2487 - 2649

Опубликована: Ноя. 9, 2021

Redox processes are at the heart of synthetic methods that rely on either electrochemistry or photoredox catalysis, but how do and catalysis compare? Both approaches provide access to high energy intermediates (e.g., radicals) enable bond formations not constrained by rules ionic 2 electron (e) mechanisms. Instead, they 1e mechanisms capable bypassing electronic steric limitations protecting group requirements, thus enabling chemists disconnect molecules in new different ways. However, while providing similar intermediates, differ several physical chemistry principles. Understanding those differences can be key designing transformations forging disconnections. This review aims highlight these similarities between comparing their underlying principles describing impact electrochemical photochemical methods.

Язык: Английский

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Photocatalytic Late-Stage C–H Functionalization

Chemical Reviews, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 123(8), С. 4237 - 4352

Опубликована: Янв. 24, 2023

The emergence of modern photocatalysis, characterized by mildness and selectivity, has significantly spurred innovative late-stage C–H functionalization approaches that make use low energy photons as a controllable source. Compared to traditional strategies, photocatalysis paves the way toward complementary and/or previously unattainable regio- chemoselectivities. Merging compelling benefits with workflow offers potentially unmatched arsenal tackle drug development campaigns beyond. This Review highlights photocatalytic strategies small-molecule drugs, agrochemicals, natural products, classified according targeted bond newly formed one. Emphasis is devoted identifying, describing, comparing main mechanistic scenarios. draws critical comparison between established ionic chemistry photocatalyzed radical-based manifolds. aims establish current state-of-the-art illustrate key unsolved challenges be addressed in future. authors aim introduce general readership functionalization, specialist practitioners evaluation methodologies, potential for improvement, future uncharted directions.

Язык: Английский

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Review of Broadband Metamaterial Absorbers: From Principles, Design Strategies, and Tunable Properties to Functional Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 33(14)

Опубликована: Янв. 29, 2023

Abstract Metamaterial absorbers have been widely studied and continuously concerned owing to their excellent resonance features of ultra‐thin thickness, light‐weight, high absorbance. Their applications, however, are typically restricted by the intrinsic dispersion materials strong resonant patterned arrays (mainly referring narrow absorption bandwidth). It is, therefore essential reassert principles building broadband metamaterial (BMAs). Herein, research progress BMAs from principles, design strategies, tunable properties functional applications comprehensively deeply summarized. Physical behind briefly discussed, typical strategies in realizing further emphasized, such as top‐down lithography, bottom‐up self‐assembly, emerging 3D printing technology. Diversified active components choices, including optical response, temperature electrical magnetic mechanical multi‐parameter responses, reviewed achieving dynamically tuned absorption. Following this, achievements various interdisciplinary for energy‐harvesting, photodetectors, radar‐IR dual stealth, bolometers, noise absorbing, imaging, fabric wearable Finally, challenges perspectives future development discussed.

Язык: Английский

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A Perspective on Late-Stage Aromatic C–H Bond Functionalization

Journal of the American Chemical Society, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 144(6), С. 2399 - 2414

Опубликована: Янв. 27, 2022

Late-stage functionalization of C-H bonds (C-H LSF) can provide a straightforward approach to the efficient synthesis functionalized complex molecules. However, LSF is challenging because bond must be in presence various other functional groups. In this Perspective, we evaluate aromatic on basis four criteria─reactivity, chemoselectivity, site-selectivity, and substrate scope─and our own views current challenges as well promising strategies areas growth going forward.

Язык: Английский

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Electrophotocatalysis: Combining Light and Electricity to Catalyze Reactions

Journal of the American Chemical Society, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 144(28), С. 12567 - 12583

Опубликована: Июль 11, 2022

Visible-light photocatalysis and electrocatalysis are two powerful strategies for the promotion of chemical reactions that have received tremendous attention in recent years. In contrast, processes combine these modalities, an area termed electrophotocatalysis, until recently remained quite rare. However, over past several years a number reports this shown potential combining power light electrical energy to realize new catalytic transformations. Electrophotocatalysis offers ability perform photoredox without need large quantities stoichiometric or superstoichiometric oxidants reductants by making use electrochemical as electron source sink. addition, electrophotocatalysis is readily amenable generation open-shell photocatalysts, which tend exceptionally strong redox potentials. way, potent yet selective been realized under relatively mild conditions. This Perspective highlights advances provides some possible avenues future work growing area.

Язык: Английский

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Synthetic Molecular Photoelectrochemistry: New Frontiers in Synthetic Applications, Mechanistic Insights and Scalability

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 61(12)

Опубликована: Сен. 3, 2021

Synthetic photoelectrochemistry (PEC) is receiving increasing attention as a new frontier for the generation and handling of reactive intermediates. PEC permits selective single-electron transfer (SET) reactions in much greener way broadens redox window possible transformations. Herein, most recent contributions are reviewed, demonstrating exciting opportunities, namely, combination with other reactivity paradigms (hydrogen-atom transfer, radical polar crossover, energy sensitization), scalability up to multigram scale, novel selectivities SET super-oxidations/reductions importance precomplexation temporally enable excited ion catalysis.

Язык: Английский

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Electrochemical Late-Stage Functionalization

Chemical Reviews, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 123(19), С. 11269 - 11335

Опубликована: Сен. 26, 2023

Late-stage functionalization (LSF) constitutes a powerful strategy for the assembly or diversification of novel molecular entities with improved physicochemical biological activities. LSF can thus greatly accelerate development medicinally relevant compounds, crop protecting agents, and functional materials. Electrochemical synthesis has emerged as an environmentally friendly platform transformation organic compounds. Over past decade, electrochemical late-stage (eLSF) gained major momentum, which is summarized herein up to February 2023.

Язык: Английский

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Photoelectrochemical Asymmetric Catalysis Enables Direct and Enantioselective Decarboxylative Cyanation

Journal of the American Chemical Society, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 144(44), С. 20201 - 20206

Опубликована: Окт. 31, 2022

The development of efficient and sustainable methods for decarboxylative transformations is great importance due to the ease availability nontoxicity carboxylic acids. Despite tremendous efforts in this area, it remains challenging develop enantioselective direct from Herein we disclose a photoelectrocatalytic method cyanation. photoelectrochemical reactions convert acids enantioenriched nitriles by employing cerium/copper relay catalysis with cerium salt catalytic decarboxylation chiral copper complex stereoselective C-CN formation.

Язык: Английский

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