Upconversion of Reductants

• Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 58; no. 17; pp. 5532 - 5550
• Main Authors: Syroeshkin, Mikhail A., Kuriakose, Febin, Saverina, Evgeniya A., Timofeeva, Vladislava A., Egorov, Mikhail P., Alabugin, Igor V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 16.04.2019; Wiley-VCH Verlag
• Edition: International ed. in English
• Subjects: Cascades; Chemical reactions; Chemical Sciences; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA repair; electron transfer; Electrons; Fireflies; fragmentations; Free energy; Organic chemistry; Peroxide; Photons; photoredox catalysis; radical anions; Redox potential; reductants; Upconversion; fragmentations; upconversion; photoredox catalysis; reductants; electron transfer; radical anions

The many applications of photon upconversion—conversion of low‐energy photons into high‐energy photons—raises the question of the possibility of “electron upconversion”. In this Review, we illustrate how the reduction potential can be increased by using the free energy of exergonic chemical reaction...