General method for carbon–heteroatom cross-coupling reactions via semiheterogeneous red-light metallaphotocatalysis
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- 31 July 2025
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Communications
- Vol. 16 (1) , 1-15
Abstract
Combining transition-metal catalysis with photocatalysis has emerged as a valuable, complementary approach for achieving carbon–heteroatom cross-coupling reactions. However, the need to use blue or high-energy near-UV light leads to problems with scalability, chemoselectivity, and catalyst deactivation, which have limited the synthetic applications of this combination. Herein, we report a method for red-light-driven nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of aryl halides with 11 different types of nucleophiles using a polymeric carbon nitride (CN-OA-m) as a photocatalyst. This semiheterogeneous catalyst system enabled the formation of four different types of carbon–heteroatom bonds (C–N, C–O, C–S, and C–Se) with a wide range of substrates (more than 200 examples) with yields up to 94%. Moreover, the photocatalyst is easily recovered and recycled, which makes it a promising new tool for the development of other reactions involving red-light metallaphotoredox catalysis.Keywords
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