Controllable deuteration of halogenated compounds by photocatalytic D2O splitting

Developing convenient deuterium labeling procedures is important in organic synthesis and the pharmaceutical industry. Here, the authors report a mild photocatalytic strategy for controllable deuteration of halides using D2O as the reagent and porous CdSe nanosheets as the catalyst.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cuibo Liu, Zhongxin Chen, Chenliang Su, Xiaoxu Zhao, Qiang Gao, Guo-Hong Ning, Hai Zhu, Wei Tang, Kai Leng, Wei Fu, Bingbing Tian, Xinwen Peng, Jing Li, Qing-Hua Xu, Wu Zhou, Kian Ping Loh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02551-8