Giovanni Lonardi
giovannilonardi.bsky.social
Giovanni Lonardi
@giovannilonardi.bsky.social
MSCA fellow in the Leonori Group
Reposted by Giovanni Lonardi
To get around the jargon, imagine a knife that would cut through an apple but not a peeled banana🔪🍎🍌

In @science.org this week the Leonori and Ruffoni groups show photoexcitation of nitroarene reagents selectively cleaves aryl C=C bonds over olefins

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Excited-state configuration of nitroarenes enables oxidative cleavage of aromatics over alkenes
The ozonolytic deconstruction of aromatics remains a challenge in organic chemistry. Ozone preferentially reacts with alkenes over arenes, meaning that once the initial aromatic cleavage occurs, the d...
www.science.org
March 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM