[Cu(bcp)(DPEphos)]+: A Versatile and Efficient Copper-Based Photoredox Catalyst and Photosensitizer

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · SynOpen 2021; 05(02): 141-144
DOI: 10.1055/a-1504-6972

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[Cu(bcp)(DPEphos)]⁺: A Versatile and Efficient Copper-Based Photoredox Catalyst and Photosensitizer

Samuel Oger

^aLaboratoire de Chimie Organique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, CP160/06, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Hajar Baguia

^aLaboratoire de Chimie Organique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, CP160/06, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tuan-Anh Phan

^bLaboratoire de Chimie Organique et Photochimie, Service de Chimie et PhysicoChimie Organiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, CP160/06, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Titouan Teunens

^bLaboratoire de Chimie Organique et Photochimie, Service de Chimie et PhysicoChimie Organiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, CP160/06, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Jérôme Beaudelot

^aLaboratoire de Chimie Organique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, CP160/06, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

^bLaboratoire de Chimie Organique et Photochimie, Service de Chimie et PhysicoChimie Organiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, CP160/06, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Cécile Moucheron∗

^bLaboratoire de Chimie Organique et Photochimie, Service de Chimie et PhysicoChimie Organiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, CP160/06, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Gwilherm Evano ∗

^aLaboratoire de Chimie Organique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, CP160/06, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

photochemistry - homogeneous catalysis - copper - free radicals - radical reaction

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