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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 143, Issue 23, Pages 8878-8885Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03693
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- ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award [60013-DNI4]
- Binghamton University
- Department of Chemistry
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While photoredox catalysis has been influential in modern synthetic chemistry, a detailed mechanistic study of alpha-aminoarylation mechanism reveals its complexity and low external quantum yield despite high product yields. The use of transient absorption spectroscopy allowed for identification of productive and unproductive reaction pathways and assignment of rate constants, providing a comprehensive understanding of the reaction. Kinetic modeling showed that the reaction is limited by scattering losses and parasitic absorption rather than individual kinetics steps.
While photoredox catalysis continues to transform modern synthetic chemistry, detailed mechanistic studies involving direct observation of reaction intermediates and rate constants are rare. By use of a combination of steady state photochemical measurements, transient laser spectroscopy, and electrochemical methods, an alpha-aminoarylation mechanism that is the inspiration for a large number of photoredox reactions was rigorously characterized. Despite high product yields, the external quantum yield (QY) of the reaction remained low (15-30%). By use of transient absorption spectroscopy, productive and unproductive reaction pathways were identified and rate constants assigned to develop a comprehensive mechanistic picture of the reaction. The role of the cyanoarene, 1,4-dicyanobenzne, was found to be unexpectedly complex, functioning both as initial proton acceptor in the reaction and as a neutral stabilizer for the 1,4-dicyanobenzene radical anion. Finally, kinetic modeling was utilized to analyze the reaction at an unprecedented level of understanding. This modeling demonstrated that the reaction is limited not by the kinetics of the individual steps but instead by scattering losses and parasitic absorption by a photochemically inactive donor-acceptor complex.
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