Surface-doped graphitic carbon nitride catalyzed photooxidation of olefins and dienes: Chemical evidence for electron transfer and singlet oxygen mechanisms

A new photocatalytic reactivity of carbon-nanodot-doped graphitic carbon nitride (CD-C₃N₄) with alkenes and dienes, has been disclosed. We have shown that CD-C₃N₄ photosensitizes the oxidation of unsaturated substrates in a variety of solvents according to two competing mechanisms: the energy...