🚨Compared to homogeneous #catalysis w/ PEC conditions, interfacial PEC enjoys limited attention in #synthesis despite obvious benefits. To make iPEC more accessible, our new✨review in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social collects & compares examples in synthetic chemists' language🧑‍🔬👇👇
tinyurl.com/yte7az2e

Intriguing nuggets:
-Heck reaction w/o Bronsted acid works by pi-stacking 'pi acid-type' preassembly of diArolefin with NHPI ester, detected by NMR titrations!🔎
-Heck rxn works in some case w/o photocat(!) when an Ar ring is tethered to NHPI
-Both rxns scalable to multimmol, both in batch⚗️&flow🚰!

Chemodivergence - what the Heck?🔎

Reactive 1° radicals from NHPIs are rare in Giese-type addns. We report💡photoredox chemodivergence after C=C addition&RPC: styrenes like Ritter carboamidations. 1,1-diAr-olefins go to Heck w/o acid:~30 examples each. Hot off the press ChemEurJ🔥
tinyurl.com/yw48ebsm

⚠️Could your WASTE be PHOTOACTIVE?🗑️💡To date, photochem remote C-H fluorinations using SelectFluor (SF) all thought to need a photocat or a photoactive substrate. Turns out to be irrelevant: SF's byproduct forms a photoactive aggregate w/ SF!✨
Check it out👇👇 @orgchemfront.rsc.org

tinyurl.com/4whvwee6

🚨Introducing a curious concept in #photochemistry "Photoredox #Autocatalysis"🔁⤴️. A diverse library📚 of BASN #sulfonamide photocats self-synthesizes from cheap, commercial materials&light,💡primed for rxn screening. 👉 @angewandtechemie.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2s3m8faj
Congrats to Jas, Mark & Nakul🎊🎉🙏