Leveraging of Sulfur Anions in Photoinduced Molecular Transformations

Haoyu Li; Yuliang Liu; Shunsuke Chiba

doi:10.1021/jacsau.1c00363

Leveraging of Sulfur Anions in Photoinduced Molecular Transformations

JACS Au. 2021 Oct 20;1(12):2121-2129. doi: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00363. eCollection 2021 Dec 27.

Authors

Haoyu Li¹, Yuliang Liu¹, Shunsuke Chiba¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore.

Abstract

This perspective describes recent advances in the use of sulfur anions to promote molecular transformations under irradiation with visible light. The topics are classified by the following reaction modes performed by the key sulfur anions: (1) C-S coupling via electron donor-acceptor (EDA) interactions, (2) photoinduced molecular transformation via sulfur anion EDA catalysis, (3) sulfur anions as photoredox and hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) catalysts, and 4) dithiocarbamate and xanthate as nucleophilic catalysts for photoinduced radical cascade reactions.

Publication types

Review