Photo-mediated selective deconstructive geminal dihalogenation of trisubstituted alkenes

Han Wang; Ren Wei Toh; Xiangcheng Shi; Tonglin Wang; Xu Cong; Jie Wu

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18274-2

Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Photo-mediated selective deconstructive geminal dihalogenation of trisubstituted alkenes

Han Wang,
Ren Wei Toh,
Xiangcheng Shi,
Tonglin Wang,
Xu Cong,
Jie Wu

Affiliations

Han Wang: Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore
Ren Wei Toh: Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore
Xiangcheng Shi: Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore
Tonglin Wang: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwest Normal University
Xu Cong: Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore
Jie Wu: Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18274-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Efficient synthetic pathways to geminal dihalides are quite limited, despite their versatility as chemical building blocks. Here, the authors report a photo-mediated deconstructive fragmentation of cyclic and acyclic trisubstituted alkenes to access a variety of geminal dihalides.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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