Photochemistry
Strongly reducing Ir photoredox on aryl chlorides
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Ir(ppy)2(NacNac) photocatalysts with BIH hydrodehalogenate unactivated aryl bromides, chlorides, fluorides, and alkyl bromides, including with green light.
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Ir(ppy)2(NacNac) photocatalysts with BIH hydrodehalogenate unactivated aryl bromides, chlorides, fluorides, and alkyl bromides, including with green light.
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Study at a glance
- Design
- Animal / in-vitro — Ir(ppy)2(NacNac) photoredox hydrodehalogenation with BIH under blue or green LEDs
- N
- Substrate-scope reactions plus Stern–Volmer and quantum-yield measurements
- Population
- Unactivated aryl bromides, chlorides, fluorides, and alkyl bromides
- Outcome
- Strongly reducing iridium photosensitizers hydrodehalogenate unactivated substrates, including under green light
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Strongly reducing Ir photoredox on aryl chlorides
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Excited-state potentials are −2.6 V and −2.4 V vs Fc+/Fc for Ir1 and Ir2
Their formal Ir IV /Ir III redox couples occur below the ferrocene couple, which in combination with their triplet excited-state energies ( E T1 ) leads to the prediction that Ir1 and Ir2 are much stronger excited-state reductants than fac -Ir(ppy) 3 and [Ir(ppy) 2 (dtbbpy)] + , with E (Ir IV /*Ir III ) = −2.6 V and −2.4 V for Ir1 and Ir2 , respectively.
Quantum yield is 4.7% for S2 to P2 and 1.4% for S7 to P7
The measured quantum yields are 4.7% for the conversion of S2 to P2 , and 1.4% for the conversion of S7 to P7 .
Key findings
Excited-state potentials are −2.6 V (Ir1) and −2.4 V (Ir2) vs Fc+/Fc, ~300–500 mV more reducing than fac-Ir(ppy)3. With 1 mol% Ir and BIH, aryl bromides work in 24 h; aryl chlorides give quantitative yields with Ir1/blue light. Quantum yields are 4.7% (S2) and 1.4% (S7). Light/dark cycling shows catalysis needs light.
Methodology
They used two β-diketiminate iridium complexes (Ir1, Ir2) plus 1,3-dimethyl-2-phenylbenzimidazoline (BIH) under blue or green LEDs. Scope included hydrodebromination, hydrodechlorination, alkyl bromides, radical cyclization, and ether C–O cleavage. Quantum yields and Stern–Volmer quenching rates were measured.
Limitations
Quantum yields <100% do not fully exclude short radical chains. Many reactions were set up in a glovebox; ambient stability of stock solutions is limited. Isolated-yield tables for every substrate are not all in the main text.
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