title: Development of photocatalysts for selective and efficient organic transformations.
abstract: One of the main goals of organic chemists is to find easy, environmentally friendly, and cost effective methods for the synthesis of industrially important compounds. Photocatalysts have brought revolution in this regard as they make use of unlimited source of energy (the solar light) to carry out the synthesis of organic compounds having otherwise complex synthetic procedures. However, selectivity of the products has been a major issue since the beginning of photocatalysis. The present article encompasses state of the art accomplishments in harvesting light energy for selective organic transformations using photocatalysts. Several approaches for the development of photocatalysts for selective organic conversions have been critically discussed with the objective of developing efficient, selective, environmental friendly and high yield photocatalytic methodologies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, 45320 Islamabad, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Shamsa
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Munir
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0012, USA. Electronic address: dionysios.d.dionysiou@uc.edu.
authors.forename: Dionysios D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Dionysiou
authors.affiliation: Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR) and Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Sher Bahadar
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, 45320 Islamabad, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Syed Mujtaba
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto M1C 1A4, Canada.
authors.forename: Bimalendu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Adhikari
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, 45320 Islamabad, Pakistan; Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto M1C 1A4, Canada. Electronic address: afzal.shah@utoronto.ca.
authors.forename: Afzal
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shah
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry*; D012666:Semiconductors; D013472:Sunlight; D014025:Titanium / Q000737:chemistry; D015032:Zinc / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D009930:Organic Chemicals; C009495:titanium dioxide; D014025:Titanium; D015032:Zinc