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biology might be paved with the implementation of our
developed strategy.
Scheme 6. Experimental Probes on Reaction Mechanism
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NMR analysis.6 Treatment of the freshly generated disulfide 15
with aniline 2 furnished the corresponding amide product 9g in
a highly effective manner.
It is clear that successful trapping of disulfide 15 would
bolster a visible-light-mediated photoredox reaction sequence
as shown in Scheme 7. Initially, photoexcitation of the Ru2+
Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Scheme 7. Proposed Mechanism
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We thank the National Science and Technology Major Projects
of China (2014ZX10005002-005), National Natural Science
Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 81502949), and Natural
Science Foundation of Guangdong Province
(2015A030310482) for financial support.
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