ChemInform Abstract: Photons, Attractive Reagents in Coordination Chemistry: The Photocatalytic Activation of Dioxygen by Transition‐Metal Porphyrinates

Hennig, H.; Knoblauch, S.; Scholz, D

doi:10.1002/chin.199743323

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“…According to previous studies on the oxygenation of cycloalkenes, the mechanism of the photooxygenation reaction is quite complicated, involving at least 3-4 elementary steps [5,6,9]. In some of the earlier studies [12,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30], as well as in more recent ones [13,15], it is explained that when Mn(III) porphyrins act as photocatalysts, (P)Mn IV =O and (P)Mn V =O intermediates play a key function in all of the in situ-produced reactive species in the oxygenation of cycloalkenes (Scheme 2).…”

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Photocatalytic Oxygenation by Water-Soluble Metalloporphyrins as a Pathway to Functionalized Polycycles

Šagud

Škorić

2018

International Journal of Photoenergy

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Photocatalytic processes are present in natural biochemical pathways as well as in the organic synthetic ones. This minireview will cover the field of photocatalysis that uses both the free-base and specially metallated porphyrins as catalysts. While free-base porphyrins are valuable sensitizers to output singlet oxygen, metalloporphyrins are even more adjustable as photocatalysts because of their coordination capacity, generating a wider range of oxidation reactions. They can be applied in autooxidation reactions, hydroxylations, or direct oxygen transfer producing epoxides. This review will mainly focus on how manganese and some iron porphyrins can be utilized for the functionalization of compounds that have a polycyclic skeleton in their structure. These kinds of compounds are notoriously taxing to obtain and difficult to further functionalize by conventional organic synthetic methods. We have focused on photocatalytic oxygenation reactions in mild conditions with the use of water-soluble porphyrins, as this has been proven to be a good tool for these transformations. In the photocatalytic reactions of some polycyclic heteroaromatic compounds, new polycyclic epoxides, enediones, ketones, alcohols, and/or hydroperoxides are yielded, depending on the catalyst applied. The application of anionic and cationic Mn(III) porphyrins under different reaction parameters results in different reaction pathways generating a vast number of photocatalytic products. Recently, Co and Ni complexes have been also photophysically investigated and confirmed as potential photocatalysts for the functionalization of organic substrates.

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