Journal article
Visible light photooxidation of nitrate: the dawn of a nocturnal radical
T Hering, T Slanina, A Hancock, U Wille, B Koenig
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS | ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY | Published : 2015
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc01580d
Abstract
Highly oxidizing nitrate radicals (NO3˙) are easily accessed from readily available nitrate salts by visible light photoredox catalysis using a purely organic dye as the catalyst and oxygen as the terminal oxidant. The interaction of the excited catalyst and nitrate anions was studied by spectroscopic methods to elucidate the mechanism, and the method was applied to the NO3˙ induced oxidation of alkynes and alcohols.
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Financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the GRK 1626 and the Australian Research Council is acknowledged. TH thanks the Fonds der Deutschen Chemischen Industrie for a fellowship.