Abstract

Phenols are integral aromatic molecules widely encountered in the structure of natural products and routinely utilised for the synthesis of high-value materials. Accessing highly substituted derivatives can often be difficult especially when their functionalization pattern does not match the intrinsic reactivity leveraged by electrophilic aromatic substitution (SEAr) chemistry. Here we provide an alternative and mechanistically distinct approach for phenol synthesis using saturated cyclohexanone precursors. This process operates at ambient temperature, under simple purple light irradiation, and features a dual catalytic manifold carrying four sequential H-atom transfer processes.

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