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Oligosilanes are of great interest in the fields of organic photonics and electronics. In this communication, a highly efficient visible-light-mediated hydrosilylation of electron-deficient alkenes through cleavage of a trimethylsilyl-polysilanyl Si-Si bond is explored. These reactions smoothly occur on readily available organo(tristrimethylsilyl)silanes and other oligosilanes in the presence of an IrIII -based photo-redox catalyst under visible light irradiation. Silyl radicals are generated through single electron oxidation of the oligosilane assisted by the solvent. The introduced method exhibits broad substrate scope and high functional group tolerance with respect to the organo(tristrimethylsilyl)silane and alkene components, enabling the construction of functionalized trisilanes. In addition, this catalytic system can be also applied to highly strained bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes as silyl radical acceptors.
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The Cα-Cß bond in homoallylic alcohols can be activated under basic conditions, qualifying these nonstrained acyclic systems as radical allylation reagents. This reactivity is exemplified by photoinitiated (with visible light and/or blue LEDs) allylation of perfluoroalkyl and alkyl radicals generated from perfluoroalkyl iodides and alkylpyridinium salts, respectively, with homoallylic alcohols. C-radical addition to the double bond of the title reagents and subsequent base-promoted homolytic Cα-Cß cleavage leads to the formation of the corresponding allylated products along with ketyl radicals that act as single electron reductants to sustain the chain reactions. Substrate scope is documented and the role of base in the C-C bond activation is studied by computation.
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New P/N-containing π-electron systems comprising fully planar biaryl arrays are synthesized by multiple radical phosphanylation. The biaryl moiety in these highly strained planar π-systems is rigidified by double P-bridging. The electronic properties of the core biaryl entity are varied by introducing N-donor substituents or by installing N-atoms within the π-system, thereby moving to the viologen core structure. The electrochemical and photophysical properties of these compounds are discussed and compared with those of related systems.
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A practical method for radical chain reduction of various aryl bromides and chlorides is introduced. The thermal process uses NaH and 1,4-dioxane as reagents and 1,10-phenanthroline as an initiator. Hydrodehalogenation can be combined with typical cyclization reactions, proving the nature of the radical mechanism. These chain reactions proceed by electron catalysis. DFT calculations and mechanistic studies support the suggested mechanism.
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Triplet dioxygen was reduced by TEMPO or trityl radicals in the presence of two molar equivalents of the strong B(p-C6 F4 X)3 (X: F or H) boron Lewis acids under mild conditions to give the bis(borane)superoxide systems 2. The sensitive radical anion species were isolated and characterized by methods including X-ray crystal structure analysis and EPR spectroscopy.
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Chemical reaction optimization (RO) is an iterative process that results in large, high-dimensional datasets. Current tools allow for only limited analysis and understanding of parameter spaces, making it hard for scientists to review or follow changes throughout the process. With the recent emergence of using artificial intelligence (AI) models to aid RO, another level of complexity has been added. Helping to assess the quality of a model's prediction and understand its decision is critical to supporting human-AI collaboration and trust calibration. To address this, we propose CIME4R-an open-source interactive web application for analyzing RO data and AI predictions. CIME4R supports users in (i) comprehending a reaction parameter space, (ii) investigating how an RO process developed over iterations, (iii) identifying critical factors of a reaction, and (iv) understanding model predictions. This facilitates making informed decisions during the RO process and helps users to review a completed RO process, especially in AI-guided RO. CIME4R aids decision-making through the interaction between humans and AI by combining the strengths of expert experience and high computational precision. We developed and tested CIME4R with domain experts and verified its usefulness in three case studies. Using CIME4R the experts were able to produce valuable insights from past RO campaigns and to make informed decisions on which experiments to perform next. We believe that CIME4R is the beginning of an open-source community project with the potential to improve the workflow of scientists working in the reaction optimization domain. SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION: To the best of our knowledge, CIME4R is the first open-source interactive web application tailored to the peculiar analysis requirements of reaction optimization (RO) campaigns. Due to the growing use of AI in RO, we developed CIME4R with a special focus on facilitating human-AI collaboration and understanding of AI models. We developed and evaluated CIME4R in collaboration with domain experts to verify its practical usefulness.
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Automation and digitalization solutions in the field of small molecule synthesis face new challenges for chemical reaction analysis, especially in the field of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Chromatographic data remains locked in vendors' hardware and software components, limiting their potential in automated workflows and data science applications. In this work, we present an open-source Python project called MOCCA for the analysis of HPLC-DAD (photodiode array detector) raw data. MOCCA provides a comprehensive set of data analysis features, including an automated peak deconvolution routine of known signals, even if overlapped with signals of unexpected impurities or side products. We highlight the broad applicability of MOCCA in four studies: (i) a simulation study to validate MOCCA's data analysis features; (ii) a reaction kinetics study on a Knoevenagel condensation reaction demonstrating MOCCA's peak deconvolution feature; (iii) a closed-loop optimization study for the alkylation of 2-pyridone without human control during data analysis; (iv) a well plate screening of categorical reaction parameters for a novel palladium-catalyzed cyanation of aryl halides employing O-protected cyanohydrins. By publishing MOCCA as a Python package with this work, we envision an open-source community project for chromatographic data analysis with the potential of further advancing its scope and capabilities.
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In the presence of two molar equiv. of B(C6F5)3 p-benzoquinone reacts with persistent radicals TEMPO, trityl or decamethylferrocene by single electron transfer to give doubly O-borylated benzosemiquinone radical anions with TEMPO+, trityl or ferrocenium counter cations. All three [(C6F5)3B]2-semiquinone radical anion salts were characterized by X-ray diffraction. The addition of donor reagent THF or DMSO induced rapid back electron transfer, in the case of the [(C6F5)3B]2-semiquinone radical anion oxoammonium salt giving rise to the formation of the (C6F5)3B-DMSO (or THF) Lewis adduct, p-benzoquinone and the TEMPO radical. The reaction of 9,10-anthraquinone or acenaphthenequinone with either the Gomberg dimer or in 1 : 1 stoichiometry in the presence of two molar equiv. of B(C6F5)3 gave the respective two-fold O-B(C6F5)3 containing 9,10-anthrasemiquinone or acenaphthene-semiquinone radical anion salts with either Ph3C+ or counter cations. These products were also characterized by X-ray diffraction. The salts showed analogous back electron shuttling behavior upon treatment with DMSO. 9,10-Phenanthrenequinone reacted analogously with B(C6F5)3 and the electron rich ferrocene. The [(C6F5)3B]2-9,10-phenanthrene-semiquinone salt was characterized by X-ray diffraction. The radical anions were characterized by ESR spectroscopy.