Recent advances on naphthoquinone-based photoinitiators of polymerization

Photoinitiating systems activable under visible light are the focus of numerous studies, and this interest is directly related to higher penetration that can be obtained in spectral range. Reactivity photoinitiating another major concern photopolymerists issue addressed by investigating new structures dyes. In field, naphthoquinones have only been scarcely examined as photoinitiators polymerization. Besides, since 2015, different strategies developed design with naphthoquinone, promising results obtained, positively paving way for future developments. review, an overview comprising a naphthoquinone unit given polymerization efficiencies these compared those reference compounds.