Financial support is provided by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21102097);the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education(No.20103201120006);Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences(BNLMS).
A homogeneous visible light photoredox TEMPO-mediated selective oxidation of primary alcohols to the corresponding carbonyl compounds was developed using molecular oxygen from air as the terminal oxidant.Ru(bpy)_(3)(P...