“…Intriguing by the effect of water on our previous study, we decided to explore how its addition impacts the yield of product at different catalyst loadings. Following our prior work conditions, 21 a mixture of 4-bromobenzonitrile (1) (as radical precursor), benzene (as radical acceptor), N,Ndiisopropylethylamine (DIPEA) (as sacrificial electron donor), and 2,7-dihexylbenzo[lmn] [3,8]phenanthroline-1,3,6,8-(2H,7H)-tetrone 21,35 (NDI, Scheme S4) as catalyst was evaluated in acetonitrile (ACN) and a mixture with water (Table 1).…”