Aromatic CÀ O bond is ubiquitous in natural product and pharmaceuticals, and their formation have significant importance in organic synthesis. A mild atom-economic visible-light photocatalytic approach has been developed for single-step synthesis of diverse aryl alcohols, ethers and esters through direct CÀ H functionalization of aromatic ring at ambient condition. This approach uses DDQ as photocatalyst and TBN as co-catalyst to facilitate the substitution of aromatic CÀ H by neutral nucleophile oxygen of water, alcohols and carboxylic acids and it uses aerobic oxygen as the terminal oxidant to produce water as the only by-product.
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