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SUBMITTER: Ischay MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2892825 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20100601 25
Photochemical reactions are remarkable for their ability to easily assemble cyclobutanes and other strained ring systems that are difficult to construct using other conventional synthetic methods. We have previously shown that Ru(bpy)(3)(2+) is an efficient photocatalyst that promotes the [2+2] cycloadditions of electron-deficient olefins with visible light. Here, we show that Ru(bpy)(3)(2+) is also an effective photocatalyst for the [2+2] cycloaddition of electron-rich olefins. This transformat ...[more]