Journal
ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 446-455Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c05005
Keywords
iridium complexes; visible light; energy transfer; photocatalysis; cycloaddition reaction
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21871123]
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Substrates in excited state differ significantly from the corresponding ground state, making photocatalytic systems increasingly popular for activation of substrates. By optimizing the properties of photosensitizers, a series of iridium complexes with high performance were successfully designed for various challenging photocycloaddition reactions.
Substrates in excited state differ significantly from the corresponding ground state so that they are treated as different chemical species with diverse physical properties and chemical reactivity. Therefore, applying photocatalytic systems to activate substrates becomes increasingly popular. Although photosensitizers serve as the core of the photocatalytic reaction, the design of a photosensitizer has not been taken for granted. By modifying ligands of organometallic complexes to optimize properties of photosensitizers, we successfully achieved a series of iridium complexes with long excited triplet-state lifetime, high triplet excited-state energy, strong absorption, and robust stability. The efficacies of the prepared iridium complexes as photosensitizers were evaluated toward various challenging photocycloaddition reactions (e.g., thia-Paterno-Buchi reaction and multicomponent one-pot aza-photocyclization) between heterocyclic compound maleimides and unsaturated moieties that are not efficient to complete with well-established photosensitizers.
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