Photoinduced Amino(hetero)arylation Reagent

Metal-free, single-step

This reagent enables the simultaneous installation of aryl and iminyl groups across alkenes under metal-free, photoinduced conditions with high regioselectivity.

Xu, Qi · Meng, Zheng · Yang, Chao · Zhao, Yating · Guo, Lin · Xia, Wujiong

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023

Advantages

Broad substrate scope (124 examples)

Applicable to olefins from the simplest ethylene to complex multisubstituted alkenes

Excellent tolerance of various functional groups