Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Dichloromethylation of enones by carbon nitride photocatalysis

  • Stefano Mazzanti,
  • Bogdan Kurpil,
  • Bartholomäus Pieber,
  • Markus Antonietti,
  • Aleksandr Savateev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15131-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Long-lived carbon nitride radicals have been used in several photocatalytic reactions. Herein, long-lived potassium poly(heptazine imide) radicals enable synthesis of γ,γ-dichloroketones from enones by addition of CHCl2 moiety, generated from chloroform, to the C=C bond.