Prof. Maurizio Benaglia, Università degli Studi di Milno
EMAIL: maurizio.benaglia@unimi.it
February 19– March 11, 2025
Photoredox catalysis has unlocked unprecedented reactivities in synthetic organic chemistry. At the same time, in the last twenty years, organocatalysis emerged, in the attempt to develop alternative, more sustainable catalytic approaches. Today, the field of organic photoredox catalysis has proven to have great potential to provide new synthetic methods under mild reaction conditions. On the other hand, the merger of photoredox catalysis with transition metal catalysis, termed metallaphotoredox catalysis, has become a mainstay in synthetic methodology over the past decade. Metallaphotoredox catalysis has combined the unparalleled capacity of transition metal catalysis for bond formation with the broad utility of photoinduced electron- and energy-transfer processes.
In this course, the basic principles of those catalytic strategies, either in batch and in flow, and some examples of synthetic applications, will be discussed.