Metal complexes for sustainable light-driven synthesis

该项目的目的是利用廉价、丰富的过渡金属离子和可见光来实现具有挑战性的合成化学反应。解决的重要问题是，目前大多数使用可见光的合成反应都需要昂贵的贵金属，而大自然使用的基本反应途径仍然无法获得。这两个问题限制了合成应用的范围。结果将是新的知识和可持续的技术，可以更好地利用可见光用于有用的合成化学应用。其好处将是更有效和经济的途径，以获得在日常生活中无处不在的有价值的分子。

The aim of this project is to use cheap, abundant transition metal ions and visible light to enable challenging synthetic chemical reactions. The significant problems addressed are that most synthetic reactions using visible light currently require expensive precious metals, and fundamental reaction pathways used by Nature remain inaccessible. Both of these problems limit the scope of synthetic applications. The outcomes will be new knowledge and sustainable technologies that can better harness visible light for useful synthetic chemistry applications. The benefits will be more efficient and cost-effective routes to valuable molecules ubiquitous in everyday life.