Unlocking metal-ligand cooperative catalytic photochemical benzene carbonylation: a mechanistic approach.

ABSTRACT: A key challenge in green synthesis is the catalytic transformation of renewable substrates at high atom and energy efficiency, with minimal energy input (ΔG ≈ 0). Non-thermal pathways, i.e., electrochemical and photochemical, can be used to leverage renewable energy resources to drive chemical processes at well-defined energy input and efficiency. Within this context, photochemical benzene carbonylation to produce benzaldehyde is a particularly interesting, albeit challenging, process that combines unfavorable thermodynamics (ΔG° = 1.7 kcal mol^-1) and the breaking of strong C-H bonds (113.5 kcal mol^-1) with full atom efficiency and the use of renewable starting materials. Herein, we present a mechanistic study of photochemical benzene carbonylatio

SUBMITTER: Crisanti F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11474400 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature