Visible-Light-Driven Reductive Carboarylation of Styrenes with CO2 and Aryl Halides

Hao Wang; Yuzhen Gao; Chunlin Zhou; Gang Li

doi:10.1021/jacs.0c03144

Visible-Light-Driven Reductive Carboarylation of Styrenes with CO₂ and Aryl Halides

J Am Chem Soc. 2020 May 6;142(18):8122-8129. doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c03144. Epub 2020 Apr 24.

Authors

Hao Wang^{1

2}, Yuzhen Gao¹, Chunlin Zhou^{1

2}, Gang Li^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Coal to Ethylene Glycol and Its Related Technology, State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China.
² Fujian College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.

PMID: 32309942
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03144

Abstract

The first example of visible-light-driven reductive carboarylation of styrenes with CO₂ and aryl halides in a regioselective manner has been achieved. A broad range of aryl iodides and bromides were compatible with this reaction. Moreover, pyridyl halides, alkyl halides, and even aryl chlorides were also viable with this method. These findings may stimulate the exploration of novel visible-light-driven Meerwein arylation-addition reactions with user-friendly aryl halides as the radical sources and the photocatalytic utilization of CO₂.