With or without a co-solvent? highly efficient ultrafast phenanthrenequinone-electron rich alkene (PQ-ERA) photoclick reactions

Chem. Sci., 2024, 15,11557-11563DOI: 10.1039/D4SC01810A, Edge Article Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Anna M. Doze, Youxin Fu, Mariangela Di Donato, Michiel F. Hilbers, Gert Luurtsema, Philip H. Elsinga, Wybren Jan Buma, Wiktor Szymanski, Ben L. FeringaThe commonly used solubilizing co-solvent DMSO was found to quench the triplet state of PQ in PQ-ERA photoclick reactions. DMSO-free conditions lead to exceptionally high photoreaction quantum yields and rate constants.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry