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Scientific Literature
A Photochemistry Year in Review 2022
Here is our list of the 22 photochemistry papers that we thought were the best, funniest, oddest, most interesting, or downright unexpected of 2022.
Photocatalytic Deconstruction of Polystyrene
What if we could shine a blue LED on our 8 billion tons of plastic waste and get back a valuable chemical feedstock? Click to read about the Reisner group’s work looking at tackling this problem.
Photocatalytic α‐Tertiary Amine Synthesis via C−H Alkylation of Unmasked Primary Amines
Abtract A practical, catalytic entry to α,α,α"trisubstituted (α"tertiary) primary amines by C-H functionalisation has long been recognised as a critical gap in the synthetic toolbox. We report a simple and scalable solution to this problem that...