Overcoming Back Electron Transfer Facilitates the Implementation of Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes in Catalysis

Electron donor-acceptor (EDA) complexes can controllably generate radicals under mild conditions through selective photoexcitation events. However, unproductive reactivity from fast deactivation of the photoexcited complexes through back electron transfer has slowed the development of EDA complexes in synthetic methodology. Here, we disclose the study of EDA complexes derived from 2-methoxynaphthalene donor and acylated ethyl isonicotinate <i>N</i>-oxide acceptor that undergo a fast N–O bond fragmentation event upon photoexcitation. This reaction design not only overcomes the limitations of back electron transfer but also enables the regeneration of the donor species, representing a rare example EDA photochemistry in a catalytic regime. The synthetic utility is demonstrated through visible light-driven radical trifluoromethylation and Minisci alkylation reactions. The scalability of the EDA complex promoted reaction evidenced by the successful multigram-scale trifluoromethylation of methyl N-Boc pyrrole-2-carboxylate in a continuous flow manifold.

Overcoming Back Electron Transfer Facilitates the Implementation of Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes in Catalysis

Electron donor-acceptor (EDA) complexes can controllably generate radicals under mild conditions through selective photoexcitation events. However, unproductive reactivity from fast deactivation of the photoexcited complexes through back electron transfer has slowed the development of EDA complexes in synthetic methodology. Here, we disclose the study of EDA complexes derived from 2-methoxynaphthalene donor and acylated ethyl isonicotinate <i>N</i>-oxide acceptor that undergo a fast N–O bond fragmentation event upon photoexcitation. This reaction design not only overcomes the limitations of back electron transfer but also enables the regeneration of the donor species, representing a rare example EDA photochemistry in a catalytic regime. The synthetic utility is demonstrated through visible light-driven radical trifluoromethylation and Minisci alkylation reactions. The scalability of the EDA complex promoted reaction evidenced by the successful multigram-scale trifluoromethylation of methyl N-Boc pyrrole-2-carboxylate in a continuous flow manifold.

Overcoming Back Electron Transfer Facilitates the Implementation of Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes in Catalysis

Electron donor-acceptor (EDA) complexes can controllably generate radicals under mild conditions through selective photoexcitation events. However, unproductive reactivity from fast deactivation of the photoexcited complexes through back electron transfer has slowed the development of EDA complexes in synthetic methodology. Here, we disclose the study of EDA complexes derived from 2-methoxynaphthalene donor and acylated ethyl isonicotinate <i>N</i>-oxide acceptor that undergo a fast N–O bond fragmentation event upon photoexcitation. This reaction design not only overcomes the limitations of back electron transfer but also enables the regeneration of the donor species, representing a rare example EDA photochemistry in a catalytic regime. The synthetic utility is demonstrated through visible light-driven radical trifluoromethylation and Minisci alkylation reactions. The scalability of the EDA complex promoted reaction evidenced by the successful multigram-scale trifluoromethylation of methyl N-Boc pyrrole-2-carboxylate in a continuous flow manifold.

Fast and efficient direct formation of size-controlled nanostructures of coordination polymers based on copper(i)–iodine bearing functional pyridine terminal ligands

We report on the direct formation of 1D nanostructures of two coordination polymers based on copper(i)–iodine double chains decorated with ethyl isonicotinate or 2-amino-5-nitropyridine as terminal ligands.