792-74-5Relevant articles and documents
Analysis of C-F bond cleavages in methylfluorobenzoates-Fragmentation and dimerization of anion radicals using convolution potential sweep voltammetry
Muthukrishnan,Sangaranarayanan
, p. 1664 - 1669 (2010)
The electrochemical reduction of methylfluorobenzoates at glassy carbon electrodes is analyzed using the convolution potential sweep voltammetry (CPSV). The stabilization of the radical anion due to the electron-withdrawing group is shown to lead to intra-molecular stepwise dissociative electron transfer. While methyl 2-fluorobenzoate (ortho isomer) follows EC mechanism, the methyl 4-fluorobenzoate (para-isomer) undergoes electro-dimerization prior to C-F bond cleavage. The first order rate constant for the EC mechanism and the dimerization rate constant for the electro-dimerization are deduced from the classical as well as convolution potential sweep voltammetry. A plausible mechanism of dimerization is suggested. The influence of the electron-withdrawing groups is illustrated by comparing the reduction behaviour of 4-fluorobenzonitrile. The potential energy surfaces and electron density mapping employing Gaussian 03 calculations provide further support for the validation of the mechanism pertaining to C-F bond cleavages.
Harris,Mitchell
, p. 1905,1907 (1960)
Host–Guest Interactions in a Metal–Organic Framework Isoreticular Series for Molecular Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction
Casini, Angela,Fischer, Roland A.,Haimerl, Johanna,Rieger, Bernhard,Schuster, Michael,Shustova, Natalia B.,Stanley, Philip M.,Thomas, Christopher,Urstoeger, Alexander,Warnan, Julien
supporting information, p. 17854 - 17860 (2021/06/11)
A strategy to improve homogeneous molecular catalyst stability, efficiency, and selectivity is the immobilization on supporting surfaces or within host matrices. Herein, we examine the co-immobilization of a CO2 reduction catalyst [ReBr(CO)3(4,4′-dcbpy)] and a photosensitizer [Ru(bpy)2(5,5′-dcbpy)]Cl2 using the isoreticular series of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) UiO-66, -67, and -68. Specific host pore size choice enables distinct catalyst and photosensitizer spatial location—either at the outer MOF particle surface or inside the MOF cavities—affecting catalyst stability, electronic communication between reaction center and photosensitizer, and consequently the apparent catalytic rates. These results allow for a rational understanding of an optimized supramolecular layout of catalyst, photosensitizer, and host matrix.
A Radical Chain: Mononuclear “Gold Only” Photocatalysis
Dreuw, Andreas,Hashmi, A. Stephen K.,Hoffmann, Marvin,Rominger, Frank,Rudolph, Matthias,Witzel, Sina
supporting information, (2021/12/06)
We herein report an unprecedented reactivity of mononuclear gold catalysts acting as classical catalysts and at the same time as active partners in a radical chain mechanism, whereby gold is the only catalyst. The mechanism of the photo-induced photosensitizer-free “gold only”-catalyzed cross coupling was studied in detail – experimentally and theoretically – based on the reaction between arylboronic acids and aryldiazonium salts. With a systematic set of stoichiometric experiments under various conditions and analytic methods, we could show that this mechanism is initiated by an aryl radical formed in the presence of blue LEDs and MeOH. This aryl radical enters the catalytic cycle to oxidize gold(I) to gold(II). Single electron transfer from gold(II) to the aryldiazonium salt then gives the cationic gold(III) complex by formation of a chain-supporting aryl radical which then is enabled to start a new cycle by oxidation of gold(I) without the need for irradiation. At least every 432 cycles of the radical chain, a new chain-initiating radical has to restart the radical chain. Eventually, the boronic acid is activated by the BF4? anion to transmetalate to gold(III), and reductive elimination delivers the desired product.
How Radical Are "radical" Photocatalysts? A Closed-Shell Meisenheimer Complex Is Identified as a Super-Reducing Photoreagent
Gonzalez, Miguel I.,Kudisch, Bryan,Nava, Matthew,Nocera, Daniel G.,Rieth, Adam J.
supporting information, p. 14352 - 14359 (2021/09/15)
Super-reducing excited states have the potential to activate strong bonds, leading to unprecedented photoreactivity. Excited states of radical anions, accessed via reduction of a precatalyst followed by light absorption, have been proposed to drive photoredox transformations under super-reducing conditions. Here, we investigate the radical anion of naphthalene monoimide as a photoreductant and find that the radical doublet excited state has a lifetime of 24 ps, which is too short to facilitate photoredox activity. To account for the apparent photoreactivity of the radical anion, we identify an emissive two-electron reduced Meisenheimer complex of naphthalene monoimide, [NMI(H)]-. The singlet excited state of [NMI(H)]- is a potent reductant (-3.08 V vs Fc/Fc+), is long-lived (20 ns), and its emission can be dynamically quenched by chloroarenes to drive a radical photochemistry, establishing that it is this emissive excited state that is competent for reported C-C and C-P coupling reactivity. These results provide a mechanistic basis for photoreactivity at highly reducing potentials via singlet excited state manifolds and lays out a clear path for the development of exceptionally reducing photoreagents derived from electron-rich closed-shell anions.