Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis in the Synthesis of Phosphonate-Substituted 1,10-Phenanthrolines

Gleb V Morozkov, Artem A Troickiy, Alexei D Averin, Alexander Yu Mitrofanov, Anton S Abel, Irina P Beletskaya, Barbara Bonelli · 2024

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Gleb Morozkov and co-authors report a light-driven way to build ring compounds in a 2024 chemistry paper. The target compounds join a phenanthroline core, a flat ring system, with a phosphonate group. Such compounds can serve as building blocks for other work. The team set out to attach the group with light rather than with metal catalysts.

Their recipe shines blue light on the mix with a dye called Eosin Y as the light catcher. The solvent was DMSO, and no transition metal was needed. Yields landed in the middle range, from 26 to 51 percent, over 22 to 40 hours. Where the bromine atom sat on the core changed both speed and which product formed. Other groups on the core mattered too.

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CREATORGleb V Morozkov, Artem A Troickiy, Alexei D Averin, Alexander Yu Mitrofanov, Anton S Abel, Irina P Beletskaya, Barbara Bonelli
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE59 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11643584

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