Brooks Anthony C, Basore Katherine, Bernhard Stefan
Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 May 25;50(40):5196-9. doi: 10.1039/c3cc47633b. Epub 2014 Jan 21.
The photoreduction of Zn(II) to Zn metal catalyzed by 8-hydroxyquinoline derivatives is reported. Structure-activity relationships, ideal reaction conditions, and the reaction kinetics are described and a mechanism involving an in situ formed quinolate complex is portrayed.