More information: Donghyeon Kim et al, Photocatalytic furan-to-pyrrole conversion, Science (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adq6245 Ellie F. Plachinski et al, Single-atom editing with light, Science ...

The slow kinetics and high energy consumption of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) limit the large-scale development of ...

The team discovered a new reaction mechanism in which the excited molecular scissor removes oxygen from furan via single-electron oxidation and then sequentially adds a nitrogen atom.

The researchers were inspired by a paper written by chemists Axel Couture and Alain Lablache-Combier in 1971, in which they used ultraviolet light to convert a furan to a N-propylpyrrole as a way ...