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SUBMITTER: Mavroskoufis A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7027522 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20200109 8
The combination of light activation and N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) organocatalysis has enabled the use of acid fluorides as substrates in a UVA-light-mediated photochemical transformation previously observed only with aromatic aldehydes and ketones. Stoichiometric studies and TD-DFT calculations support a mechanism involving the photoactivation of an ortho-toluoyl azolium intermediate, which exhibits "ketone-like" photochemical reactivity under UVA irradiation. Using this photo-NHC catalysis a ...[more]