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SUBMITTER: Popescu MV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7891567 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20201008 51
The [2+2] photocycloaddition is the most valuable and intensively investigated photochemical process. Here we demonstrate that irradiation of N-acryloyl heterocycles with blue LED light (440 nm) in the presence of an Ir<sup>III</sup> complex leads to efficient and high yielding fused γ-lactam formation across a range of substituted heterocycles. Quantum calculations show that the reaction proceeds via cyclization in the triplet excited state to yield a 1,4-diradical; intersystem crossing leads p ...[more]