Electrifying Photochemistry.⚡💡 Aggregation in Photochemistry Matters.🔗 est. 2020.😎 🇩🇪🇪🇺
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🚨After 5y in making, unveiling a special discovery🌌in @Chem_CP:
Cross-coupling transient(vinyl/sp!) radicals.🚫Ni/Fe/radical sorting/hydrazides.✅Covalent-rotating organoPC💡dyads template 2 precursors, generate& cross-couple radicals in close proximity
tinyurl.com/mtkd45p4
✨Our new concept in @ACSCatalysis was featured as a cover!☯️🌘
Not dHAT, not iHAT.. in between: PET-HAT!🐈🎩
Upon Photoinduced Electron Transfer:🌗reduction of a substrate on the light moon side, the CATalyst scratches apart a C-H bond w/ its dark side🌓N(yan)-centered radical! – at Milngavie, Scotland
🚨New review!📰(BarhamLab on🔥)
Streamlined⏩access to complex ketones in 1 synthetic step: We review latest advances in 3-comp. alkene 1,2-oxo-functionalizations. 1e- logic unlocks access to a broad pool of radical precursors &O atom sources to play with🤹♂️tinyurl.com/mr2akdrp
By 1-electron logic, one can generate & add radicals to alkenes, then trap the resulting radicals w/ an O atom source, rapidly building complexity in 3-component reactions, often under milder conditions. We review this &dissect the review into O atom source: tBuOOH, DMSO, or O2🫧
Many congratulations🎉🎊🙏 to the team; @luigidolcini & Alex (paper #1 of his PhD!), & especially to 1st-author @m_lepori (a.k.a. "Dr. Ritter") for his first (co)-corresponding⭐️article!
Prost!🍻
While XEC rxns = hard for any PRC platform (hats off to Ni/electro🫡), we envision developing dyad PCs to challenge✊any coupling of e-rich+e-poor partners. Watch out Suzuki/Heck/Sonogashira! Knowing how tempting the 'dark side' of cross-coupling is- let this be a ray of light!🌥️
Obviously.. we're absolutely thrilled to see the field of *autocatalysis* (for asymm. synthesis) recognized by the 2026 Nobel!🪙🎉🙏A LONG overdue, fully-deserved recognition of Soai's rxn, which brought autocatalysis to the fore of chemist's attention&origins of life/chirality🧵
even an enantioselective one. Most notably Rautenstrauch🇨🇭(Firmenich)'s -who is still alive- &sadly not being recognized today alongside Kagan🇫🇷&Soai🇯🇵...His 1991 paper:
lnkd.in/eFPGuk3Z
Also the former Nobel Laureate, Wilhelm Ostwald, laid much of the groundwork for this.
To know the history of synthetic autocatalysis, development of Soai's reaction &groundwork before it, historically under-appreciated 'open-shell' autocatalysis, check out our review👇
tinyurl.com/2vp4ucy7
&recent discovery of photoredox autocatalysis!💡
tinyurl.com/4a3xwekt
