Photocatalytic decarboxylation of free carboxylic acids and their functionalization

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,9645-9658 DOI: 10.1039/D4CC03189J, Highlight Subal Mondal, Subham Mandal, Soumya Mondal, Siba P. Midya, Pradyut Ghosh This highlight article summarizes the complete development of photodecarboxylative functionalization of free carboxylic acids via a concerted single electron transfer (SET) or energy transfer (ET) pathways.