Achieving chemoselectivity for chemical synthesis is mainly limited to thermodynamic conditions by an exogenous activation strategy. Here, the authors report an endogenous activation method, which can be used to control the chemoselectivity of phenol and naphthol through the photo-induced excited-state intramolecular proton transfer.
- Min Hou
- Xiaoling Jing
- Shuanhu Gao
