Carbene-catalysed reductive coupling of nitrobenzyl bromides and activated ketones or imines via single-electron-transfer process

• Main Authors: Li, Bao-Sheng, Wang, Yuhuang, Proctor, Rupert S. J., Zhang, Yuexia, Webster, Richard D., Yang, Song, Song, Bao-An, Chi, Robin Yonggui
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Science::Chemistry; Synthetic Chemistry Methodology; Organocatalysis
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83912; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42863
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Benzyl bromides and related molecules are among the most common substrates in organic synthesis. They are typically used as electrophiles in nucleophilic substitution reactions. These molecules can also be activated via single-electron-transfer (SET) process for radical reactions. Representative rec...