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Product Code M2508B1-250mg
Price $117

Isophthalonitrile Photocatalyst

TADF cyanoarene photosensitizer available in sublimed (≥99%) and unsublimed (≥98%) grade


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4DPAIPN is a typical donor–acceptor fluorophore with excellent redox window and good chemical stability. With four diphenylamine as electron donor groups and two nitrile groups at meta-positions as electron acceptor on a fully substituted benzene ring, 4DPAIPN is very similar in chemical structure to 4CzIPN. The only difference between them is that 4DPAIPN has four diphenylamine groups while 4CzIPN has four carbazole functional groups.

4DPAIPN has emerged as a powerful and effective metal-free organic photocatalyst in a great variety of chemical reactions. 4-alkyl-1,4-dihydropyridines (DHPs) undergo phosphonylation with 9-fluorenyl o-phenylene phosphite under blue LEDs in the presence of 1 mol% 1,2,3,5-4DPAIPN and 200 mol% triethylamine. This reaction is applicable to primary, secondary, and even tertiary DHPs and exhibits a broad substrate scope and excellent functional group tolerance.

General Information


CAS Number 1846598-27-3
Full Name 2,4,5,6-Tetrakis(diphenylamino)isophthalonitrile
Chemical Formula C56H40N6
Molecular Weight 796.96 g/mol
Photocatalyst Activation 390 nm
Fluorescence λem 470 nm, 536 nm nm in acetonitrile
HOMO/LUMO E1/2(*P/P-) = 1.21 V, E1/2(P/P-) = -1.52 V, 
Classification/Family Triphenylamine, Phthalonitrile, Cyanoarene, TADF materials, Photosensitizers, Photocatalysts

Chemical Structure


Chemical Structure of 4DPAIPN
Chemical Structure of 4DPAIPN, CAS: 1846598-27-3

Product Details


Purity Unsublimed >98.0% (1H NMR), Sublimed > 99%
Melting Point N/A
Appearance Yellow powder/crystals

MSDS Documentation


3DPAFIPN MSDS4DPAIPN MSDS sheet

Literature and Reviews


  1. P. Singh et al. (2020); Recent advances in using 4DPAIPN in photocatalytic transformations, Org. Biomol. Chem., 19, 313-321; DOI: 10.1039/D0OB01884H.
  2. H. Zhang et al. (2024); Facile synthesis of alkylphosphonates from 4-alkyl-1,4-dihydropyridines via photoinduced formal deformylative phosphonylation, Org. Chem. Front., 11, 4502-4507; DOI: 10.1039/D4QO00863D.
  3. M. Villa et al. (2024); Organic super-reducing photocatalysts generate solvated electrons via two consecutive photon induced processes, Chem. Sci., 15, 14739-14745; DOI: 10.1039/D4SC04518A.


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