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SUBMITTER: Hwang SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5811117 | biostudies-other | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Hwang Seung Jun SJ Powers David C DC Maher Andrew G AG Nocera Daniel G DG
Chemical science 20141008 2
Photoactivation of M-X bonds is a challenge for photochemical HX splitting, particularly with first-row transition metal complexes because of short intrinsic excited state lifetimes. Herein, we report a tandem H<sub>2</sub> photocycle based on combination of a non-basic photoredox phosphine mediator and nickel metal catalyst. Synthetic studies and time-resolved photochemical studies have revealed that phosphines serve as photochemical H-atom donors to Ni(ii) trihalide complexes to deliver a Ni(i ...[more]