A BODIPY-functionalized Pd photoredox catalyst for Sonogashira C-C cross-coupling reactions.

We report for the first time a BODIPY-functionalized dichloro(1,10-phenanthroline)palladium(ii) complex as an efficient photoredox catalyst for the Sonogashira C-C cross-coupling between phenylacetylene derivatives and iodobenzene derivatives with yields up to 92% under visible light illumination at room temperature.

Alkynes as CH/π Acceptors: Microwave Spectra and Structures of the CH2F2···Propyne and CH2ClF···Propyne Dimers.

Rotational spectra of weakly bound complexes of chlorofluoromethane (CH2ClF) and difluoromethane (CH2F2) with propyne (HCCCH3) have been measured using chirped-pulse and resonant-cavity Fourier-transform microwave spectroscopy, adding to a relatively small body of high resolution spectroscopic data on propyne complexes. Both dimers contain CH/π contacts, as well as secondary contacts between one or both halogen atoms and the methyl group of propyne. A detailed structural determination for CH2F2···propyne has been made by study of the normal, one deuterated and four (13)C substituted isotopologues, with the second lowest energy configuration predicted from ab initio calculations agreeing well with the observed structure.