%A S Telitel
%A AL Vallet
%A S Schweizer
%A B Delpech
%A N Blanchard
%A F Morlet-Savary
%A B Graff
%A DP Curran
%A M Robert
%A E Laco?te
%A J Lalev?e
%J Journal of the American Chemical Society
%T Formation of N-heterocyclic carbene-boryl radicals through electrochemical and photochemical cleavage of the B-S bond in N-heterocyclic carbene-boryl sulfides
%X The B-S bond in N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-boryl sulfides can be cleaved homolytically to NHC-boryl or NHC-thioboryl and thiyl radicals using light, either directly around 300 nm or with a sensitizer at a longer wavelength (>340 nm). In contrast, the electrochemical reductive cleavage of the B-S bond is difficult. This easy photolytic cleavage makes the NHC-boryl sulfides good type I photopolymerization initiators for the polymerization of acrylates under air. ? 2013 American Chemical Society.
%N 45
%P 16938 - 16947
%V 135
%D 2013
%R 10.1021/ja4066267
%L pittir27429