Issue 73, 2023

Photocatalytic dechlorination of unactivated chlorocarbons including PVC using organolanthanide complexes

Abstract

Simple lanthanide cyclopentadienyl (Cp) complexes can photochemically cleave the sp3 carbon–chlorine bond of unactivated chlorinated hydrocarbons including polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The excited state lifetimes of these simple complexes are among the longest observed for cerium complexes (175 ns for [(CpMe4)2Ce(μ-Cl)]2) and the light absorption by the Cp ligand is efficient, so photocatalytic reactivity is enhanced for cerium and now also made possible for neighboring, normally photoinactive, lanthanide congeners.

Graphical abstract: Photocatalytic dechlorination of unactivated chlorocarbons including PVC using organolanthanide complexes

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 6 2023
Accepted
23 7 2023
First published
24 7 2023

Chem. Commun., 2023,59, 10924-10927

Author version available

Photocatalytic dechlorination of unactivated chlorocarbons including PVC using organolanthanide complexes

A. E. Kynman, S. Christodoulou, E. T. Ouellette, A. Peterson, S. N. Kelly, L. Maron and P. Arnold, Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 10924 DOI: 10.1039/D3CC02906A

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements