Horsewill Samuel J, Cao Chengyang, Dabney Noah, Yang Eric S, Faulkner Stephen, Scott Daniel J
Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.
Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Dec 12;59(99):14665-14668. doi: 10.1039/d3cc04375d.
Photoredox catalysis has flourished in recent years, but due to its widespread utility applications have grown faster than mechanistic understanding. In this report we help to address this deficit by isolating and characterising one of the intermediates of the iconic photocatalyst [Ru(bipy)], and testing its initial photoreactivity towards common substrates.
