Photochemically induced electron transfer from aniline derivatives to pyridine-2,4-dicarbonitrile: synthetic and mechanistic aspects

A study on the photochemically induced electron transfer from substituted aniline donors to a 2,4-dicyanopyridine acceptor permits the synthesis of new amino derivatives of the pyridine and forms the basis of a hypothesis on the mechanism of the reaction and the influence of the substituent on the aniline ring.