Synergistic combination of visible-light photo-catalytic electron and energy transfer facilitating multicomponent synthesis of β-functionalized α,α-diarylethylamines

A synthetic strategy with the visible-light photo-catalytic synergistic combination of electron and energy transfer processes has been developed. The mild reaction conditions allow the radical–radical cross-coupling phenomenon for the multicomponent synthesis of β-arylsulfonyl(diarylphosphinoyl)-α,α-diarylethyl-amines from readily available arylsulfinic acids (diarylphosphine oxides), 1,1-diarylethylenes and arylazides.