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    Arylcarboxylation of unactivated alkenes with CO2 via visible-light photoredox catalysis

    Photocatalytic carboxylation of alkenes with CO2 is a promising and sustainable strategy to synthesize high value-added carboxylic acids. However, it is challenging and rarely investigated for unactivated alkenes...

    Wei Zhang, Zhen Chen, Yuan-Xu Jiang, Li-Li Liao, Wei Wang in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Electrochemical reactor dictates site selectivity in N-heteroarene carboxylations

    Pyridines and related N-heteroarenes are commonly found in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and other biologically active compounds1,2. Site-selective C–H functionalization would provide a direct way of making thes...

    Guo-Quan Sun, Peng Yu, Wen Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yi Wang, Li-Li Liao, Zhen Zhang in Nature (2023)

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    Nickel-catalyzed electrochemical carboxylation of unactivated aryl and alkyl halides with CO2

    Electrochemical catalytic reductive cross couplings are powerful and sustainable methods to construct C−C bonds by using electron as the clean reductant. However, activated substrates are used in most cases. H...

    Guo-Quan Sun, Wei Zhang, Li-Li Liao, Li Li, Zi-Hao Nie, **-Gui Wu in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Visible-light photoredox-catalyzed umpolung carboxylation of carbonyl compounds with CO2

    Photoredox-mediated umpolung strategy provides an alternative pattern for functionalization of carbonyl compounds. However, general approaches towards carboxylation of carbonyl compounds with CO2 remain scarce. H...

    Guang-Mei Cao, **n-Long Hu, Li-Li Liao, Si-Shun Yan, Lei Song in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Reductive dearomative arylcarboxylation of indoles with CO2 via visible-light photoredox catalysis

    Catalytic reductive coupling of two electrophiles and one unsaturated bond represents an economic and efficient way to construct complex skeletons, which is dominated by transition-metal catalysis via two elec...

    Wen-Jun Zhou, Zhe-Hao Wang, Li-Li Liao, Yuan-Xu Jiang, Ke-Gong Cao in Nature Communications (2020)

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    Transition metal-free phosphonocarboxylation of alkenes with carbon dioxide via visible-light photoredox catalysis

    Catalytic difunctionalization of alkenes has been an ideal strategy to generate structurally complex molecules with diverse substitution patterns. Although both phosphonyl and carboxyl groups are valuable func...

    Qiang Fu, Zhi-Yu Bo, Jian-Heng Ye, Tao Ju, He Huang, Li-Li Liao in Nature Communications (2019)