Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Visible light-promoted CO2 fixation with imines to synthesize diaryl α-amino acids

  • Xinyuan Fan,
  • Xu Gong,
  • Mengyue Ma,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Patrick J. Walsh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07351-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Fixation of CO2 in organic molecules is an area of great interest due to the implications in sustainable chemistry. Here, the authors show a visible light-mediated hydrocarboxylation of ketimines with atmospheric CO2 to afford a number of α,α–diaryl α-amino acid derivatives.