Amphiphilic photo-isomerisable phosphanes for aqueous organometallic catalysis

Hervé Bricout, Estelle Banaszak, Christophe Len, Frédéric Hapiot, Éric Monflier

Chemical Communications · 2010 · 23 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

Water-soluble phosphanes were tagged with a light-responding diazo group. Upon UV exposure, the diazo-isomerisation led to phosphane morphology change, resulting in an increase in the reaction rate of an aqueous palladium-catalysed cleavage reaction.

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