Formation of N-heterocyclic carbene-boryl radicals through electrochemical and photochemical cleavage of the B-S bond in N-heterocyclic carbene-boryl sulfides.

The B-S bond in N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-boryl sulfides can be cleaved homolytically to NHC-boryl or NHC-thioboryl and thiyl radicals using light, either directly around 300 nm or with a sensitizer at a longer wavelength (>340 nm). In contrast, the electrochemical reductive cleavage of the B-S bond is difficult. This easy photolytic cleavage makes the NHC-boryl sulfides good type I photopolymerization initiators for the polymerization of acrylates under air.

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