Heterogeneous Photocatalysis for Cyclic Compound Synthesis or Functionalization, a Promising Approach for Discovery Chemistry
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Photocatalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2025) | Viewed by 2756
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Photocatalysis has emerged as an increasingly important methodology in the modern synthetic toolbox, providing access to open-shell radical pathways that are complementary to classical reactivity. Its mild reaction conditions grant high selectivity and broad functional group tolerance. Beyond the well-studied homogeneous photocatalysts, heterogeneous photocatalysts can operate similarly but offer additional advantages such as low cost, high photostability, and high catalyst turnover. Combining these factors, highly efficient heterogeneous photocatalysis may be particularly attractive to the pharmaceutical industry from an economic perspective.
Considering the fact that cyclic scaffolds are privileged scaffolds in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery, this Special Issue aims to collect high-quality original research, reviews, and perspectives with an emphasis on heterogeneous photocatalysis for cyclic compound synthesis or functionalization. The heterogeneous photocatalysts applied in this research may include, but are not limited to, highly recyclable and affordable semiconductive visible-light absorbing materials such as titanium oxide, cadmium chalcogenide, or perovskite nanocrystals, metal-organic frameworks, conjugated organic polymers, and carbon nitride. Within this topic, research papers that involve bioactivity testing of synthesized compounds, computational-guided bioactive compound design, and cooperative catalysis are highly encouraged.
Dr. Yixiong Lin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- heterogeneous photocatalysis
- photocatalytic cyclization
- cycloaddition
- green chemistry
- photoredox chemistry
- semiconductor-based photocatalysts
- ring compound functionalization
- drug discovery
- nanomaterial photocatalysis
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