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🔥 HOT PAPER 🔥

The work carried out by Lorenzo at Uni Regensburg under the guidance of Burkhard Konig and with the fruitful help of Davide resulted in a dual photocatalytic approach for the functionalisation/aromatisation of cheap and abundant saturated heterocycles into functionalised aromatics compounds. Kinetic, KIE and deuteration studies were carried out for a better understanding of the reaction mechanism. Green metrics of this sustainable approach have been calculated, highlighting the greenness of the protocol with only H2 gas as side product.

Congratulations to and Davide 🎉
Check it out: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5GC04418A

In the presentwork we efficiently developed a TBADT photocatalyzed decarbonylative strategy. The fast direct
HAT from aldehydes formyl group and ensuing α-fragmentation of the photogenerated acyl radical (i.e., decarbonylation) is exploited to boost efficiency, redirect regioselectivity, and enable reactivity in methodologies based on HAT. Check it out: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacsau.5c00530

Big congrats to , Davide and Maurizio for this success 🎉🎉