Boosting photocatalyst efficiency through heterocyclic engineering of the 4CzIPN motif

Boosting photocatalyst efficiency through heterocyclic engineering of the 4CzIPN motif Full article

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Chemical Communications
ISSN: 1359-7345 , E-ISSN: 1364-548X

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Year: 2026, DOI: 10.1039/d6cc03276a

Authors

Astakhov Alexander V. ^1,2 , Komarov Gennady S. ^1,2 , Lavrentev Igor V. ^1,2 , Shlapakov Nikita S. ³ , Samorodnova Anastasiia P. ³ , Korshunov Vladislav M. ^4,5 , Taydakov Ilya V. ⁵ , Chernyshev Victor M. ^1,2 , Ananikov Valentine P. ³

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1	Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI), Prosveschenya 132, 346428 Novocherkassk, Russia
2	Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, The Territory of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, Bolshoy Boulevard, 30, bld.1, 121205, Moscow, Russia
3	Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 47, Moscow, 119991, Russia
4	Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2-ya Baumanskaya str. 5/1, 105005 Moscow, Russia
5	P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Prospect 53, 119991, Moscow, Russia

Replacing a carbazole unit in 4CzIPN with electron-deficient azoles affords photocatalysts with enhanced excited-state oxidation potentials (up to +1.62 V vs. SCE). The benzimidazole derivative BMz3CzIPN outperforms 4CzIPN in redox-neutral decarboxylative Giese addition and oxidative anisole bromination, and proves more efficient in the challenging long-term reductive dechlorination of 4-chloroanisole.

Astakhov A.V. , Komarov G.S. , Lavrentev I.V. , Shlapakov N.S. , Samorodnova A.P. , Korshunov V.M. , Taydakov I.V. , Chernyshev V.M. , Ananikov V.P.
Boosting photocatalyst efficiency through heterocyclic engineering of the 4CzIPN motif
Chemical Communications. 2026. DOI: 10.1039/d6cc03276a WOS Scopus OpenAlex

Submitted:	May 27, 2026
Published print:	Sep 3, 2026

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