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Custom-Made Pyrene Photocatalyst-Promoted Desulfonylation of Arylethenyl Sulfones Using Green-Light-Emitting Diodes
Watanabe, Hikaru,Nakajima, Kazuki,Ekuni, Kento,Edagawa, Ryota,Akagi, Yuta,Okuda, Yasuhiro,Wakamatsu, Kan,Orita, Akihiro
, p. 2984 - 2994 (2021)
The Sonogashira coupling of 1,3,6,8-tetrabromopyrene with 4-[(-)-β-citronellyloxy]phenylethyne was employed to synthesize 1,3,6,8-tetra[4-(citronellyloxy)phenylethynyl]pyrene. The pyrene derivative catalyzed the reductive desulfonylation of ethenyl sulfones via visible-light irradiation (514 nm green light-emitting diodes) in the presence of i -Pr 2NEt. The β-citronellyloxy groups provided the sufficient solubility to the highly π-expanded pyrene catalyst, and their polar oxygen functionalities enabled the easy separation of the catalyst from the products via column chromatography.
