Electrophotocatalytic S_N Ar Reactions of Unactivated Aryl Fluorides at Ambient Temperature and Without Base

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2020 Jan 7;59(2):658-662. doi: 10.1002/anie.201909983. Epub 2019 Nov 22.

Authors

He Huang¹, Tristan H Lambert¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.

Abstract

The electrophotocatalytic S_N Ar reaction of unactivated aryl fluorides at ambient temperature without strong base is demonstrated.

Keywords: SNAr; arylation; electrochemistry; electrophotocatalysis; photochemistry.

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