Abstract
Dicarboxylic acids have a wide range of applications in the polymer industry to construct valuable mate-rials.Photocatalysis has recently emerged as an efficient and sustainable strategy to generate dicarboxylic acids.However,photocatalytic dicarboxylation with CO2 is mainly limited to unsaturated bonds,and the dicarboxylation of C-C single bonds still remains a challenge.Herein,we report a photocatalytic dicar-boxylation of C-C single bonds in strained rings with CO2 units via consecutive photo-induced electron transfer(ConPET).It is also the first photocatalytic reductive ring-opening reaction of cyclobutanes.No-tably,this transition-metal-free protocol exhibits good functional group tolerance,broad substrate scope,facile scalability,and easy product derivatizations.Moreover,diacids can easily be derivatized to main-chain liquid crystalline polyesters.
基金项目
Financial support is provided by the National Natural science Foundation of China(22225106)
Fundamental Research Funds from Sichuan University(2020SCUNL102)
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities()