Metal-Free Photocatalytic Radical Trifluoromethylation Utilizing Methylene Blue and Visible Light Irradiation
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The use of organofluorine compounds, especially those with an incorporated trifluoromethyl moiety, has increased dramatically in both the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industry. It has therefore become imperative to develop a mild and efficient synthetic technique for the inclusion of trifluoromethyl groups. Herein, we report the first use of methylene blue as a photosensitizer for the catalytic radical trifluoro- and hydrotrifluoromethylation of electron-rich heterocycles as well as terminal alkenes and alkynes under visible light irradiation. These reactions proceed with moderate to good yields at low catalyst concentrations; short irradiation times; and most importantly, without the need for potentially toxic transition-metal catalysts. In this work, considerable emphasis was also placed on understanding the kinetics of the mechanistically key steps through the use of laser flash photolysis techniques to more efficiently optimize the reaction conditions.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it