Developing a Greener Approach for the Synthesis of Anticancer Drug Candidate
The use of light energy, which is considered a clean and traceless reagent, for the synthesis of complex heterocyclic molecules makes organic photochemistry one of the important green chemistry tools. Photochemistry holds an important role in accessing biologically relevant molecules containing complex skeletons that are difficult to access by conventional thermal methods. Skeletons that are difficult to obtain through ground state chemistry, can be constructed using light as a reagent, producing high energy excited states required for the molecules to undergo required transformation.