Laser-Induced Wurtz-Type Syntheses with a Metal-Free Photoredox Catalytic Source of Hydrated Electrons.
Tim KohlmannChristoph KerzigMartin GoezPublished in: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2019)
Upon irradiation with ns laser pulses at 355 nm, 2-aminoanthracene in SDS micelles readily produces hydrated electrons. These "super-reductants" rapidly attack substrates such as chloro-organics and convert them into carbon-centred radicals through dissociative electron transfer. For a catalytic cycle, the aminoanthracene needs to be restored from its photoionization by-product, the radical cation, by a sacrificial donor. The ascorbate monoanion can only achieve this across the micelle-water interface, but the monoanion of ascorbyl palmitate results in a fully micelle-contained regenerative electron source. The shielding by the micelle in the latter case not only increases the life of the catalyst but also strongly suppresses the interception of the carbon-centred radicals by the hydrogen-donating ascorbate moiety; and in conjunction with the high local concentrations effected by the pulsed laser, termination by radical dimerization thus dominates. We have obtained a complete and consistent picture through monitoring the individual steps and the assembled system by flash photolysis on fast and slow timescales, from microseconds to minutes; and in preparative studies on a variety of substrates, we have achieved up to quantitative dimerization with a turnover on the order of 1 mmol per hour.
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