Virtual Lecture: New Avenues in Synthesis via Organic Photoredox Catalysis

Lecture held on: March 28, 2022

Presenter

Prof. David Nicewicz – Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Single electron pathways are common in the biological realm and are integral to photosynthesis and physiological processes in humans. As synthetic chemists, we seek to harness the power of single electron mediated pathways to more efficiently make the pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and materials that the modern world requires. Prof. Nicewicz group seeked to use organic salts as excited state catalysts to mediate single electron processes in the development of new chemical transformations. In this lecture, Prof. David Nicewicz discussed organic photoredox catalysis and covered some of the reactivity from his group including C-H functionalization chemistry and applications to radiolabeling technology.