Recent Advances in Photoredox-Catalyzed Difunctionalization of Alkenes

Alkenes and their related analogs are ideal starting materials for organic synthesis, the selective difunctionalization of alkenes, which allows simultaneous introduction two neighboring bonds, has gained considerable attention in recent years. In particular, photoredox-catalyzed alkenes also been accomplished, regarded as an increasingly powerful tool synthesis miscellaneous interesting molecular scaffolds environmentally benign economical manner. Several exquisite strategies have developed to facilitate this transformation, such photosensitizer-catalyzed redox reactions, electron donor-acceptor (EDA) complexes-mediated photoreactions, atom transfer radical addition (ATRA) reactions. This literature review briefly describes most key progress on 1,2-difunctionalization various structurally diverse including 1,2-dicarbofunctionalization, 1,2-carboheterofunctionalization, 1,2-diheterofunctionalization, with a special emphasis mechanistic details.