Hybrid Catalysts for Enantioselective Photo-Phosphoric Acid Catalysis

Abstract

The syntheses of two novel, organic, and chiral photocatalysts are presented. By combining donor–acceptor cyanoarene-based photocatalysts with a chiral phosphoric acid, bifunctional catalysts have been designed. In preliminary proof-of-concept reactions, their use in both enantioselective energy transfer and photoredox catalysis is demonstrated.