The visible light induced, photocatalysts or photoabsorbing EDA complexes mediated cleavage of pyridinium C-N bond were reported in the past years. Here, we report an ionic compound promote homolytic cleavage of pyridinium C-N bond by exploiting the photonic energy from visible light. This finding is successfully applied in deaminative hydroalkylation of a series of alkenes including naturally occurring dehydroalanine, which provides an efficient way to prepare β-alkyl substituted unnatural amino acids under mild and photocatalyst-free conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCellulose hydrogels with high compressive strength were constructed by physical dissolution/regeneration process. Cellulose was dissolved in lithium hydroxide/urea aqueous solvent and lithium tetrafluoroborate aqueous solution was used for regeneration, to obtain hydrogels with compact structure. Compressive strength of the hydrogel reached 14.
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