{"title":"Photochemical homodimerization as a key step in natural product synthesis","authors":"Ellie F. Plachinski, Tehshik P. Yoon","doi":"10.1016/j.tet.2025.134706","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Photochemical dimerizations constitute a relatively simple but important class of bimolecular reactions. Nature produces several classes of dimeric natural products, some of which appear to be arise from radical or excited-state coupling reactions that could be photochemically initiated. This review focuses on natural products syntheses that exploit these photochemical dimerization reactions; selected total syntheses are discussed as examples, with particular attention given to the photochemical key step and its stereoselectivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":437,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 134706"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Tetrahedron","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040402025002625","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Photochemical dimerizations constitute a relatively simple but important class of bimolecular reactions. Nature produces several classes of dimeric natural products, some of which appear to be arise from radical or excited-state coupling reactions that could be photochemically initiated. This review focuses on natural products syntheses that exploit these photochemical dimerization reactions; selected total syntheses are discussed as examples, with particular attention given to the photochemical key step and its stereoselectivity.
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Tetrahedron publishes full accounts of research having outstanding significance in the broad field of organic chemistry and its related disciplines, such as organic materials and bio-organic chemistry.
Regular papers in Tetrahedron are expected to represent detailed accounts of an original study having substantially greater scope and details than that found in a communication, as published in Tetrahedron Letters.
Tetrahedron also publishes thematic collections of papers as special issues and ''Reports'', commissioned in-depth reviews providing a comprehensive overview of a research area.