DOI: 10.1039/d6qo01365a ISSN: 2052-4129

Tandem two-photon excitation/two-electron reduction of molecular flavin for photocatalytic reductive debromination

Xuan Zhang, Xiaoyu Wang, Ge Jin, Guiwen Guo, Qin Zhang, Yun Han, Jiangtong Zhang, Peiwei Gong, Fanjun Zhang, Mianran Chao, Binju Wang, Duyi Shen

Nonenzymatic riboflavin tetraacetate achieves a tandem two-photon/two-electron process with triethylamine as the terminal reductant, affording an excited anionic flavin to enable photocatalytic dehalogenation of vicinal dibromides to yield olefins.

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