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Title: Novel photoinduced carbon-carbon bond formation via metal-alkyl and -enolate porphyrins - visible light-mediated polymerization of alkyl methacrylate catalyzed by aluminum porphyrin

Journal Article · · J. Am. Chem. Soc.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00249a056· OSTI ID:6084549

Photocatalysis with metalloporphyrin has been studied mainly in connection with biological photosynthesis. Electron transfer from excited metalloporphyrin to an acceptor resulting in charge separation, eventually leading to hydrogen evolution from water, has been the subject of much interest. In the present communication, they report an unprecedented type of the photocatalysis with metalloporphyrin, in which the formation of carbon-carbon bonds proceeds by the effect of visible light. The reaction is the polymerization of alkyl methacrylate catalyzed by (tetraphenylporphinato)aluminum methyl((TPP)AlMe) upon irradiation with visible light to give a polymer of narrow molecular weight distribution.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
OSTI ID:
6084549
Journal Information:
J. Am. Chem. Soc.; (United States), Vol. 109:15
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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