{"title":"Recent advances of 9-fluorenone in photoredox catalysis","authors":"Pritesh Khobrekar, Sandesh Bugde","doi":"10.1016/j.mcat.2025.115169","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>9-fluorenone has recently become a very effective photoredox catalyst for various chemical transformations. 9-fluorenone is very cheap and readily available, making it promising for versatile photocatalysts compared to transition metal complexes. This review provides a detailed account of synthetic transformations, including rearrangements, oxidations, C–H functionalization, Diels–Alder reactions, acylation, and alkylation, along with the mechanism of representative methodologies based on their general catalytic cycle utilizing 9-fluorenone as a photoredox catalyst. Additionally, the organic transformations discussed in this review align with green chemistry principles, as they avoid heavy metals, minimize waste, use cost-effective reagents, employ environmentally friendly solvents, and facilitate easy oxidation with O₂.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":393,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Catalysis","volume":"582 ","pages":"Article 115169"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Molecular Catalysis","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468823125003542","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
9-fluorenone has recently become a very effective photoredox catalyst for various chemical transformations. 9-fluorenone is very cheap and readily available, making it promising for versatile photocatalysts compared to transition metal complexes. This review provides a detailed account of synthetic transformations, including rearrangements, oxidations, C–H functionalization, Diels–Alder reactions, acylation, and alkylation, along with the mechanism of representative methodologies based on their general catalytic cycle utilizing 9-fluorenone as a photoredox catalyst. Additionally, the organic transformations discussed in this review align with green chemistry principles, as they avoid heavy metals, minimize waste, use cost-effective reagents, employ environmentally friendly solvents, and facilitate easy oxidation with O₂.
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Molecular Catalysis publishes full papers that are original, rigorous, and scholarly contributions examining the molecular and atomic aspects of catalytic activation and reaction mechanisms. The fields covered are:
Heterogeneous catalysis including immobilized molecular catalysts
Homogeneous catalysis including organocatalysis, organometallic catalysis and biocatalysis
Photo- and electrochemistry
Theoretical aspects of catalysis analyzed by computational methods