Murata Kei, Numasawa Nobutsugu, Shimomaki Katsuya, Takaya Jun, Iwasawa Nobuharu
Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
Front Chem. 2019 May 22;7:371. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00371. eCollection 2019.
The improved catalytic conditions and detailed reaction mechanism of the visible-light driven hydrocarboxylation of alkenes with CO by the Rh(I) and photoredox dual catalysts were investigated. The use of the benzimidazoline derivative, BI(OH)H, as a sacrificial electron donor was found to increase the yield of the hydrocarboxylated product by accelerating the reduction process. In addition, the incorporation of the cyclometalated Ir(III) complex as a second photosensitizer with [Ru(bpy)] photosensitizer also resulted in the promotion of the reduction process, supporting that the catalytic cycle includes two photochemical elementary processes: photoinduced electron and energy transfers.