Neutral organic super electron donors made catalytic

Rohrbach, Simon and Shah, Rushabh S. and Tuttle, Tell and Murphy, John A. (2019) Neutral organic super electron donors made catalytic. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58 (33). pp. 11454-11458. ISSN 1433-7851 (https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201905814)

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Abstract

Neutral organic super electron donors (SEDs) display impressive reducing power but, until now, it has not been possible to use them catalytically in radical chain reactions. This is because, following electron transfer, these donors form persistent radical cations that trap substrate-derived radicals. This paper unlocks a conceptually new approach to super electron donors that overcomes this issue, leading to the first catalytic neutral organic super electron donor.