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Scheme 7. Experimental Studies on the Reaction
Mechanism
biological and pharmaceutical contexts, we envision that this
dual diaryliodonium salt/photoredox catalytic system will find
broader applications in due course.
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noticed when 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy (TEMPO)
was added to the reaction system, suggesting that this reaction
should include a radical step. Finally, fluorescence quenching
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Stern−Volmer) experiments showed that the photoexcited
CzIPN could be quenched efficiently by diaryliodonium salt,
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indicating that the diaryliodonium salt presumably participated
in a single electron transfer process in this reaction.
On the basis of the above observation and literature reports,
a plausible mechanistic network for α,β-unsaturated amide
formation was proposed in Scheme 8. Initially, the in-situ-
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China
21502086 and 41575118), Natural Science Foundation of
Fujian Province (2019J01744 and 2015J05028), Outstanding
Youth Science Foundation of Fujian Province (2015J06009),
and Program for Excellent Talents of Fujian Province for
financial support.
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Scheme 8. Mechanistic Proposal
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