title: Visible light photooxidation of nitrate: the dawn of a nocturnal radical.
abstract: Highly oxidizing nitrate radicals (NO3˙) are easily accessed from readily available nitrate salts by visible light photoredox catalysis using a purely organic dye as the catalyst and oxygen as the terminal oxidant. The interaction of the excited catalyst and nitrate anions was studied by spectroscopic methods to elucidate the mechanism, and the method was applied to the NO3˙ induced oxidation of alkynes and alcohols.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany. burkhard.koenig@ur.de.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hering
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Slanina
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hancock
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Wille
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: König
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D005609:Free Radicals / Q000737:chemistry; D008027:Light; D009566:Nitrates / Q000737:chemistry*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D055668:Photochemical Processes
chemical_list: D005609:Free Radicals; D009566:Nitrates