Recently, the team from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made new progress in the generation pathway of nitrogen-centered radicals, proposing a new mechanism for highly selective photoelectrocatalytic N–N coupling. This mechanism utilizes copper ions to activate nitrogen-containing substrates, achieving efficient interfacial charge transfer through non-covalent weak interactions, promoting the cleavage of inert N-H bonds to directly generate nitrogen-centered radicals, and avoiding the use of precious metal catalysts and functional group pre-modification. The results have been published in Nature Communications.
