PhD in Chemical and Materials Sciences

UV-Visible Light Photocatalysis: Concepts and Application In Organic Synthesis

UV-Visible Light Photocatalysis: Concepts and Application In Organic Synthesis

Academic year 2018/2019

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Course objectives

This course is intended to provide an overview on molecular and heterogeneous photocatalysis and its application for energy harvesting and chemical synthesis

Didactical objectives are:

• Provide the theoretical background of photochemistry and photophysics of homogeneous and heterogeneous photocatalysis
• To give an overview of the current and potential applications of photocalysis in organic chemistry, emphasizing new routes not achievable by thermal reactions

Program

• Photochemistry: Absorption and luminescence; Intensity of Electronic Transitions; Excited States Radiative Lifetimes; Energy and Electron Transfer; proton transfer and H atom abstraction; Photosensitization, Rates and Quantum Yields; Quenching of Excited States; Identification, Classification and Reactivity of Excited States (organic molecules; inorganic and organometallic complexes)
• Molecular (homogeneous) photocatalysis, semiconductor photocatalysis and photoelectrochemistry, water photosplitting
• Main photocatalyzed organic reactions
• Visible light photocatalysis promoted by photocatalyst activation
• Cooperative/dual photocatalysis

Few examples of visible light induced transition metal-catalyzed transformation

Note

The course will be delivered on October 4 -8 2019 14-17. The lecture room will be communicated asap

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