Visible-Light-Driven Organic Photochemical Reactions in the Absence of External Photocatalysts

Yi Wei; Quan-Quan Zhou; Fen Tan; Liang-Qiu Lu; Wen-Jing Xiao

doi:10.1055/s-0037-1611812

Synthesis, Table of Contents

Synthesis 2019; 51(16): 3021-3054
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1611812

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Visible-Light-Driven Organic Photochemical Reactions in the Absence of External Photocatalysts

Authors

Yi Wei

^aCCNU-uOttawa Joint Research Centre, Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, 152 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, P. R. of China Email: luliangqiu@mail.ccnu.edu.cn
Quan-Quan Zhou

^aCCNU-uOttawa Joint Research Centre, Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, 152 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, P. R. of China Email: luliangqiu@mail.ccnu.edu.cn
Fen Tan*

^bHubei Key Laboratory of Purification and Application of Plant Anti-cancer Active Ingredients, Hubei University of Education, Wuhan, Hubei, 430205, P. R. of China Email: tanfen@hue.edu.cn
Liang-Qiu Lu*

^aCCNU-uOttawa Joint Research Centre, Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, 152 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, P. R. of China Email: luliangqiu@mail.ccnu.edu.cn
Wen-Jing Xiao

^aCCNU-uOttawa Joint Research Centre, Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, 152 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, P. R. of China Email: luliangqiu@mail.ccnu.edu.cn

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Abstract

Visible-light-driven organic photochemical reactions have attracted substantial attention from the synthetic community. Typically, catalytic quantities of photosensitizers, such as transition metal complexes, organic dyes, or inorganic semiconductors, are necessary to absorb visible light and trigger subsequent organic transformations. Recently, in contrast to these photocatalytic processes, a variety of photocatalyst-free organic photochemical transformations have been exploited for the efficient formation of carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bonds. In addition to not requiring additional photocatalysts, they employ low-energy visible light irradiation, have mild reaction conditions, and enable broad substrate diversity and functional group tolerance. This review will focus on a summary of representative work in this field in terms of different photoexcitation modes.

1 Introduction

2 Visible Light Photoexcitation of a Single Substrate

3 Visible Light Photoexcitation of Reaction Intermediates

4 Visible Light Photoexcitation of EDA Complexes between Substrates

5 Visible Light Photoexcitation of EDA Complexes between Substrates and Reaction Intermediates

6 Visible Light Photoexcitation of Products

7 Conclusion and Outlook

Key words

visible light - organic photochemical reactions - electron donor-acceptor complex - photoexcitation - free radicals

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