Metal and metal-free photocatalysts: mechanistic approach and application as photoinitiators of photopolymerization

• Jacques Lalevée,
• Sofia Telitel,
• Pu Xiao,
• Marc Lepeltier,
• Frédéric Dumur,
• Fabrice Morlet-Savary,
• Didier Gigmes and
• Jean-Pierre Fouassier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 863–876, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.83

• introduced into the polymer photochemistry field (area) in the very past years (see a review in [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]). Indeed, in this area, free-radical photopolymerization (FRP, Scheme 1, reactions 1 and 2), cationic photopolymerization (CP, Scheme 1, reactions 3 and 4), free-radical promoted

• cationic photopolymerization (FRPCP, Scheme 1, reactions 5–7) or acid and base-catalyzed photocrosslinking (reactions 8 and 9) are initiated using photoinitiators (PI) which generate reactive species (radicals, cations, anions, radical cations, acids, bases). These PIs are often incorporated into

New core-pyrene π structure organophotocatalysts usable as highly efficient photoinitiators

• Sofia Telitel,
• Frédéric Dumur,
• Thomas Faury,
• Bernadette Graff,
• Mohamad-Ali Tehfe,
• Didier Gigmes,
• Jean-Pierre Fouassier and
• Jacques Lalevée

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 877–890, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.101

• experiments. The mechanisms involved in the initiation step are discussed, and relationships between the core structure, the Co_Py absorption property, and the polymerization ability are tentatively proposed. Keywords: cationic photopolymerization; free-radical-promoted cationic photopolymerization