Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Controllable deuteration of halogenated compounds by photocatalytic D2O splitting

  • Cuibo Liu,
  • Zhongxin Chen,
  • Chenliang Su,
  • Xiaoxu Zhao,
  • Qiang Gao,
  • Guo-Hong Ning,
  • Hai Zhu,
  • Wei Tang,
  • Kai Leng,
  • Wei Fu,
  • Bingbing Tian,
  • Xinwen Peng,
  • Jing Li,
  • Qing-Hua Xu,
  • Wu Zhou,
  • Kian Ping Loh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02551-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Developing convenient deuterium labeling procedures is important in organic synthesis and the pharmaceutical industry. Here, the authors report a mild photocatalytic strategy for controllable deuteration of halides using D2O as the reagent and porous CdSe nanosheets as the catalyst.