Acoplamiento de radicales cetílicos habilitado por hidrocarburos aromáticos policíclicos electrofotocatalizadores

Joseph M Edgecomb1, Sara N Alektiar1, Nicholas G W Cowper1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.

Resumen

Los investigadores desarrollaron hidrocarburos aromáticos policíclicos como electrofotocatalizadores para reducir los compuestos de carbonilo, creando radicales cetilo para reacciones de acoplamiento desafiantes. Esto hace avanzar la electrofotocatálisis para generar diversos intermediarios radicales reactivos.

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