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Acyl Radical Chemistry via Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis
Arghya Banerjee1, Zhen Lei1, Ming-Yu Ngai1,2
1Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11794-3400, USA.
Abstract:
Visible light photoredox catalysis has enabled easy access to acyl radicals under mild reaction conditions. Reactive acyl radicals, generated from various acyl precursors such as aldehydes, α-ketoacids, carboxylic acids, anhydrides, acyl thioesters, acyl chlorides, or acyl silanes, can undergo a diverse range of synthetically useful transformations, which were previously difficult or inaccessible. This review summarizes such recent progress of visible-light-driven acyl radical generation using transition metal photoredox catalysts, metallaphotocatalysts, hypervalent iodine catalysts or organic photocatalysts.
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