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Recent Advances in Visible-Light Photocatalytic Asymmetric Synthesis Enabled by Chiral Lewis Acids

  • Xiuliang Cheng ,
  • Dong Li ,
  • Boxuan Yang ,
  • Yumei Lin ,
  • Lei Gong
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  • a College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005
    b Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen, Fujian 361005
†These authors contributed equally to this work.
* Corresponding author. E-mail:

Received date: 2022-05-19

  Revised date: 2022-06-25

  Online published: 2022-07-05

Supported by

National Natural Science Foundation of China(22071209); National Natural Science Foundation of China(22071206); National Youth Talent Support Program

Abstract

In recent years, visible-light photocatalytic asymmetric synthesis has shown considerable potential in the mild and rapid construction of optically active organic molecules with structural diversity. Chiral Lewis acids (CLA), including chiral borane compounds, lanthanum complexes, first-row transition metal complexes, and chiral-at-iridium or rhodium complexes, have been established as one class of the most effective catalysts being capable of controlling the stereochemistry in photo-induced chemical transformations. The recent advances in this emerging field were presented by classifying the reactions into bifunctional CLA photocatalytic reactions and reactions enabled by dual catalysis with a CLA catalyst and an external photosensitizer, expecting that these studies will stimulate progress in organic synthesis, photocatalysis and asymmetric catalysis.

Cite this article

Xiuliang Cheng , Dong Li , Boxuan Yang , Yumei Lin , Lei Gong . Recent Advances in Visible-Light Photocatalytic Asymmetric Synthesis Enabled by Chiral Lewis Acids[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022 , 42(10) : 3335 -3350 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc202205032

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