Abstract
Photocatalytic oxygenation of hexamethylbenzene occurs under visible-light irradiation of an O2-saturated acetonitrile solution containing a cobalt porphyrin complex CoII(TPP) (TPP2- = tetraphenylporphyrin dianion), water, and triflic acid (HOTf) via a one-photon-two-electron process, affording pentamethylbenzyl alcohol and hydrogen peroxide as products with a turnover number of >6000; in this reaction, H2O and O2 were used as an oxygen source and a two-electron oxidant, respectively. The photocatalytic mechanism was clarified by means of electron paramagnetic resonance, time-resolved fluorescence, and transient absorption measurements as well as 18O-labeling experiments with H218O and 18O2. To the best of our knowledge, we report the first example of efficient photocatalytic oxygenation of an organic substrate by a metal complex using H2O as an oxygen source and O2 as a two-electron oxidant.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 9155-9159 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
Volume | 141 |
Issue number | 23 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 12 Jun 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the NRF of Korea through CRI (NRF-2012R1A3A2048842 to W.N.) and the Basic Science Research Program (2017R1D1A1B03029982 to Y.-M.L. and 2017R1D1A1B03032615 to S.F.) and by MEXT (Grant-in-Aid 16H02268 to S.F.). We appreciate Dr. Muniyandi Sankar-alingam for help with EPR measurements.
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