Chemical photocatalysis using visible light
Burkhard König
University of Regensburg, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy D-93040 Regensburg, GERMANY
The use of visible light for organic synthesis is a very old idea: More than 100 years ago the Italian chemist Giacomo Ciamician discovered and promoted the field. Recently, photoredox chemistry mediated by metal complexes, such as ruthenium-trisbipyridine, or organic dyes, such as eosin, gained enormous interest for applications in organic synthesis.
We present some of the recent results[1] using photoredox catalysis (PRC) with visible light from our laboratory including photooxidations, oxidative C-C bond formation and photo-Meerwein arylation reactions.
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