Heteroleptic copper-based complexes formed from bisphosphines and diamines are easily prepared and rapidly evaluated in various mechanistically distinct photocatalytic reaction types. Follwoing a library screening, new heteroleptic complexes based upon the bisphosphine BINAP, displayed generally high efficiency across all reaction types.  Comparisons demonstrated that heteroleptic complexes provide higher yields, reactivities and greater solubilities than the analogous homoleptic diamine-based complexes.

Copper-based complexes for photocatalysis

255th National Meeting (2018)

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