Visible??Light Sensitization of Vinyl Azides by Transition??Metal Photocatalysis

EP Farney, TP Yoon

Index: Farney, Elliot P.; Yoon, Tehshik P. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2014 , vol. 53, # 3 p. 793 - 797

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Abstract

Abstract Irradiation of vinyl and aryl azides with visible light in the presence of Ru photocatalysts results in the formation of reactive nitrenes, which can undergo a variety of C [BOND] N bond-forming reactions. The ability to use low-energy visible light instead of UV in the photochemical activation of azides avoids competitive photodecomposition processes that have long been a significant limitation on the synthetic use of these reactions.