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Photoelectrochemical asymmetric catalysis

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In the quest for more efficient and sustainable asymmetric catalytic methods, synthetic organic chemistry has relentlessly explored innovative techniques. This Comment highlights an emerging topic — photoelectrochemical asymmetric catalysis (PEAC) — which fuses molecular photoelectrocatalysis with asymmetric catalysis.

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Fig. 1: Photoelectrochemical asymmetric catalysis (PEAC).
Fig. 2: Photoelectrocatalytic asymmetric cyanation.
Fig. 3: Photoelectrocatalytic asymmetric dehydrogenative [2+2] cycloaddition.
Fig. 4: Basic components, advantages, challenges and outlook of photoelectrochemical asymmetric catalysis (PEAC).

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The authors acknowledge financial support of this research by the National Key R&D Program of China (2023YFA1507202), the NSFC (22225101, 22361142752), the Scientific Research Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Vaccines for Infectious Diseases, the Xiang An Biomedicine Laboratory (2023XAKJ0102050) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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    Chong Huang, Peng Xiong, Xiao-Li Lai & Hai-Chao Xu

  2. Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

    Chong Huang, Peng Xiong, Xiao-Li Lai & Hai-Chao Xu

  3. Xiang An Biomedicine Laboratory, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

    Chong Huang, Peng Xiong, Xiao-Li Lai & Hai-Chao Xu

  4. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

    Chong Huang, Peng Xiong, Xiao-Li Lai & Hai-Chao Xu

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