Synthesis and preliminary characterization of two copper(I) chromophore–acceptor dyads as potential photoredox catalysts
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Abstract
The development of sustainable alternatives to fossil fuel-derived chemical feedstocks is imperative as we move towards decarbonization. Here, we report two Cu(I) chromophore–acceptor dyads bearing a 1,8-naphthalene monoimide electron-accepting moiety with a pendant Lewis basic pyridine for halogen bonding in the hopes of driving C–Br cleavage reactions using visible light. The photophysical and electrochemical properties are documented and both complexes were found to have favourable driving force for intramolecular charge shift in the excited state. However, neither complex was capable of C–Br cleavage and C–C bond formation in our hands. This study highlights that there are many structural and electronic factors that must be considered to successfully drive photoredox transformations, and the reported photosensitizers have potential uses in other applications owing to the synthetically versatile pyridine on the accepting ligand.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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