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1. Cu2O Nanocrystals-Catalyzed Photoredox Sonogashira
1. Cu2O Nanocrystals-Catalyzed Photoredox Sonogashira
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Herein the first visible-light-activated Sonogashira C@C cou- shira cross-couplings are the predominant inexpensive proto-
pling reaction at room temperature catalyzed by single-metal cols for constructing conjugated alkynes,[3d, 4, 5] However, the
heterogeneous Cu2O truncated nanocubes (Cu2O TNCs) was usage of excess ligands and the harsh thermal reaction condi-
developed. A wide variety of aryl halides and terminal alkynes tions diminish their merits.
worked well in this recyclable heterogeneous photochemical To address the above challenges, we previously reported
process to form the corresponding Sonogashira C@C coupling visible-light-triggered CuCl-catalyzed Sonogashira cross-
products in good yields. Mechanistic control studies indicated coupling between aryl halides and terminal alkynes at room
that CO2 enhances the formation of light-absorbing heteroge- temperature.[6] We envisioned that the C@C coupling reactions
neous surface-bound CuI-phenylacetylide (lmax = 472 nm), can be initiated by photoexcited copper(I)-phenylacetylide that
which further undergoes single-electron transfer with aryl undergoes a single-electron transfer (SET) process with
iodides/bromides to enable Sonogashira Csp2@Csp bond forma- ground-state aryl halides via inner-coordination sphere to ini-
tion. In contrast to literature-reported bimetallic TiO2-contain- tiate the C@C coupling reaction upon visible-light irradiation.
ing nanoparticles as photocatalyst, this work avoided the need We questioned whether it is possible to replace the molecular
of cocatalysis by TiO2. Single-metal CuI in Cu2O TNCs was solely CuCl catalyst with recyclable solid copper-containing nanopar-
responsible for the observed Csp2@Csp coupling reactions under ticles (NPs) for the Sonogashira Csp2@Csp cross-coupling reac-
CO2 atmosphere. tions between aryl halides and terminal alkynes under visible-
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con carbide-supported Pd–Cu alloy (Pd3Cu1/SiC) or TiO2-
Table 1. Effects of reaction parameters.
supported palladium NPs (Pd@TiO2) (Scheme 1 c);[8, 9] and
c) TiO2-supported CuO bimetallic photocatalysts (Scheme 1 d),
for which cocatalysis of Ti to Cu ions is required for the cou-
pling reactions to occur.[10] Despite increased attention, most
heterogeneous NP-based catalysts still have some limitations.
They require cocatalysis from a metal-oxide support (e.g., TiO2, Entry Variation from standard conditions Yield[a] [%]
ZnO, Fe2O3, Nb2O5, CdS, BiTaO4), usually have poor photocata- 1 under N2 68[b]
lytic activities owing to weak light absorption and an ineffi- 2 none (1 atm CO2) 89[c]
3 Au NCs n.r.
cient charge separation,[11, 12] and have limited substrate scope
4 Pd NPs n.r.
and poor recyclability. Thus, a single-metal-based heterogene- 5 no light, 80 8C 10
ous catalyst would be more attractive for Sonogashira C@C 6 no base n.r.
coupling. CO2 is known to be a major contributor to global 7 no Cu2O TNCs n.r.
8 CuO nanospheres n.r.
warming and can promote or trigger some chemical reactions,
9 Cu2O octahedral NCs 82
which has received significant attention in organic synthesis.[13] 10 Cu2O NCs 80
It was reported in the literature that CO2 (a Lewis acid) can
[a] Yield of the isolated product. [b] 22 % homocoupling product, 1,4
physically/chemically absorb on various kinds of metal oxides diyne, was observed. [c] Trace amount of homocoupling products. n.r. =
(Lewis bases), leading to formation of carbonates or undergo- no reaction.
ing electrochemical reductive conversion to methanol on the
Cu2O electrode surface.[14a–d] Theoretical calculations also
showed that chemical adsorption of CO2 on the Cu2O solid sur- pling byproduct (entry 2). The increase in the 3 a yield under
face will release @56 to @233 kJ mol@1 adsorption energy, de- CO2 atmosphere is probably owing to two factors. First, remov-
pending on the mode of adsorption.[14e,f] In other words, ad- al of molecular O2 can suppress the homocoupling products
sorption of CO2 on the Cu2O surface is exothermic and will because an O2 atmosphere is known to promote formation of
occur spontaneously. Herein we report (Scheme 1 e) single- Glaser homocoupling products. Second, coordination of CO2
metal-based heterogeneous catalysis that avoids the require- onto the surface of Cu2O TNCs probably enhances the forma-
ment of cocatalysis by metal-oxide support (such as TiO2) and tion of surface-bound CuI-phenylacetylide and prolongs its ex-
achieves visible-light-activated Sonogashira C@C coupling be- cited-state lifetime, leading to more efficient SET to aryl halides
tween aryl halides and terminal alkynes at room temperature (see below). We also found that CuO NPs were not able to cat-
catalyzed by heterogeneous Cu2O truncated nanocubes alyze the formation of 3 a (entry 8) under the standard condi-
(TNCs). The notable key features of current method are as fol- tions, whereas Cu2O NCs with different morphologies all could
lows: (i) Cu2O TNCs are solely responsible for the generation of catalyze formation of 3 a with good yields (entries 9, 10, see
the surface-bound light-absorbing CuI TNCs-phenylacetylide Figure S3–S5 in the Supporting Information). These results un-
complex; (ii) CO2 was shown to enhance the C@C cross- ambiguously indicate that only CuI- but not CuII-containing
coupling product yields; (iii) moderate-to-good yields were NPs can catalyze the Sonogashira C@C coupling reactions be-
achieved with no significant loss in catalytic efficiency even tween aryl halides and terminal alkynes.
after five cycles; (iv) good recyclability of the catalyst was ach- Under the optimized conditions (Table 1, entry 2), we then
ieved, in which the heterogeneous Cu2O TNCs photocatalyst investigated the scope of the aryl iodides (2) with 1 a. Various
can be recycled by simple centrifugation–filtration. aryl iodides containing neutral, electron-rich, halogen-substi-
We synthesized the highly stable Cu2O TNCs through a hy- tuted, or electron-poor moieties all reacted well with 1 a to
drothermal route,[15] further analyzed their morphologies by afford C@C coupling products 3 a–i in good yields (70–89 %,
SEM and TEM, and investigated their photophysical properties see Table 2). To our disappointment, we observed very low
by methods such as UV/Vis/near-IR (NIR), and XRD (for details yields of products 3 f and 3 k in the case of aryl bromide
of synthesis and structural characterization, see Figure S1 in substrates.
the Supporting Information). Inspired our previous work,[6] we Further, we explored the scope of alkyl/aryl terminal alkynes
intended to develop a single-metal heterogeneous Cu catalyst with 4-iodoanisole (2 f) under the optimized conditions
for photoinduced C@C cross-coupling reactions. We began our (Table 3). A wide range of aliphatic terminal alkynes reacted
investigations by using phenylacetylene (1 a) and iodobenzene well with 2 f to form the corresponding C@C cross-coupling
(2 a) as substrates under blue-light irradiation with different products 4 a–f in 81–89 % yield. In addition, the system worked
NP-based catalysts, solvents, and bases. We were delighted to very well for aryl terminal alkynes substituted with neutral, hal-
find that the combination of Cu2O TNCs and K2CO3 in CH3CN/ ogen, and electron-withdrawing groups (tBu, Cl, CN, acyl) and
CH3OH (1:1 v/v) as a cosolvent provided 3 a in 68 % yield along heterocyclic alkynes (e.g., carbazole), producing C@C coupling
with 22 % of Glaser homocoupling product under visible-light products 4 g–p in good yields.
irradiation in N2 atmosphere at room temperature (Table 1, To gain mechanistic insights into the Cu2O TNCs-catalyzed
entry 1). Further optimization of the reaction conditions Sonogashira C@C coupling reaction, several experiments were
showed that the presence of CO2 could further boost the yield performed (Scheme 2). Addition of Cu2O TNCs to a phenylace-
of 3 a to 89 % accompanied by a trace amount of homocou- tylene/CH3CN/CH3OH solution (with or without CO2) resulted in
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Figure 1. Mechanistic studies. (a) FTIR-spectra of in situ-generated Cu2O-CuI-phenylacetylide. (b) UV/Vis/NIR spectra of in situ-generated Cu2O-CuI-phenylacety-
lide in CH3CN; PhAC = phenylacetylene. (c) Photoluminescence quenching of photoexcited Cu2O-CuI-phenylacetylide by addition of 2 f. (d) EPR spectrum of
the adduct of aryl radical with a spin-trapping agent (3,3,5,5-tetramethyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide) in dark and under photoirradiation. The g value is 2.0053 with a
coupling constant aH = 15.90 G.
bound Cu2O-CuI-phenylacetylide because the steady-state lu- examined for their ability to catalyze the Sonogashira coupling
minescent intensity is in general proportional to the amount reaction, which showed that the catalytic activity decreased
of luminescent compound present in the solution. The phos- only slightly from 86 % yield of 3 a in the first run to 80 % in
phorescence lifetime of the surface-bound Cu2O-CuI-phenyla- the fifth cycle. Notably, as shown in Figure 2 b, SEM images of
cetylide changes from 13.9 ms in the absence of CO2 to 15.3 ms the recycled catalyst displayed that the morphology and size
under a CO2 atmosphere (see Figure S7 b in the Supporting In- of Cu2O TNCs remain unchanged. The crystallinity of Cu2O
formation). A longer excited-state lifetime is more favorable to TNCs was stable even after five catalytic cycles (Figure 2 c). Be-
a bimolecular electron transfer from surface-bound photoexcit- sides Cu2O TNCs, other Cu2O NPs such as octahedral NPs and
ed Cu2O-CuI-phenylacetylide to aryl halide in the solution, cubes can all catalyze the Sonogashira C@C coupling reaction,
which should lead to higher amounts of aryl radical as well as but they are less stable and tend to form aggregates and
a higher yield of C@C coupling product. Indeed, we observed a change morphologies after reactions (see Figures S4 and S5 in
slightly stronger aryl radical EPR signal under a CO2 atmos- the Supporting Information).
phere than under normal air conditions (see Figure S7 c in the The reaction mechanism for the photoinduced Sonogashira
Supporting Information). Overall, the presence of CO2 enhan- coupling reaction catalyzed by single-metal heterogeneous
ces the Sonogashira C@C coupling product yield through en- Cu2O TNCs was proposed in Scheme 3. Based on the UV/Vis
hanced formation of the surface-bound Cu2O-CuI-phenylacety- and FTIR spectroscopy and other supporting mechanistic evi-
lide intermediate and slightly prolonged excited-state lifetime. dence, CuI on Cu2O TNCs reacts with 1 a to form surface-
Finally, we evaluated the recycling performance of the bound CuI-phenylacetylide (1 a’) on Cu2O TNCs. 1 a’ has an ab-
single-metal heterogeneous Cu2O TNCs by using 1 a and 2 h sorption maximum at 472 nm, and its redox potential is proba-
under the optimal conditions and blue-LED irradiation bly close or similar to its molecular counterpart (Eredox =
(Figure 2). After completion of the reaction, the catalyst was @2.048 V vs. saturated calomel electrode, SCE). Upon photoex-
collected by centrifugation and washed with water several citation by blue LEDs, a long-lived triplet photoexcited cop-
times to remove K2CO3. The recycled Cu2O TNCs were further per(I)-phenylacetylide (5) was generated,[18] followed by SET to
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Figure 2. (a) Catalytic activities of Cu2O TNCs versus number of cycles. (b) SEM image and (c) XRD pattern of recycled Cu2O TNCs.
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