Metal-metal interactions in correlated single-atom catalysts

J Shan, C Ye, Y Jiang, M Jaroniec, Y Zheng… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) include a promising family of electrocatalysts with unique
geometric structures. Beyond conventional ones with fully isolated metal sites, an emerging …

Bimetallic cooperation across the periodic table

J Campos - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Organometallic chemistry and its applications in homogeneous catalysis have been
dominated by mononuclear transition-metal complexes. The catalytic performance and …

Evolution of isolated atoms and clusters in catalysis

L Liu, A Corma - Trends in Chemistry, 2020 - cell.com
Structural transformation and evolution of active metal sites can occur in metal-catalyzed
reactions in both homogeneous and heterogeneous systems. Such structural changes have …

Selective difunctionalization of unactivated aliphatic alkenes enabled by a metal–metallaaromatic catalytic system

FH Cui, Y Hua, YM Lin, J Fei, LH Gao… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The design of organometallic catalysts is crucial in the development of catalytic reactions.
Herein, we describe a heterometallic [Os-Cu] complex with the characteristics of bimetallics …

Small molecule activation with bimetallic systems: a landscape of cooperative reactivity

M Navarro, JJ Moreno, M Pérez-Jiménez… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
There is growing interest in the design of bimetallic cooperative complexes, which have
emerged due to their potential for bond activation and catalysis, a feature widely exploited …

Switch in Selectivities by Dinuclear Nickel Catalysis: 1,4-Hydroarylation of 1,3-Dienes to Z-Olefins

K Chen, H Zhu, S Liu, J Bai, Y Guo, K Ding… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
One of the most challenging tasks in organic synthesis is to control selectivities, especially
switching the well-known selectivity to obtain new isomers that were previously inaccessible …

Implementation of cooperative designs in polarized transition metal systems—significance for bond activation and catalysis

B Chatterjee, WC Chang, S Jena, C Werle - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bond activation and catalysis are central to the development of a sustainable energy system.
Frustrated Lewis Pairs have conceptually revolutionized the activation of inert chemical …

Magnesiation of aryl fluorides catalyzed by a rhodium–aluminum complex

I Fujii, K Semba, QZ Li, S Sakaki… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report the magnesiation of aryl fluorides catalyzed by an Al–Rh heterobimetallic
complex. We show that the complex is highly reactive to cleave the C–F bonds across the …

Heterometallic Clusters with Cerium–Transition-Metal Bonding Supported by Nitrogen–Phosphorus Ligands

X Sun, J Shen, T Rajeshkumar, L Maron… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ligands are known to play a crucial role in the construction of complexes with metal–metal
bonds. Compared with metal–metal bonds involving d-block transition metals, knowledge of …

Valence Tautomerism Induced Proton Coupled Electron Transfer: X− H Bond Oxidation with a Dinuclear Au (II) Hydroxide Complex

KM Hess, IF Leach, L Wijtenhorst, H Lee… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We report the preparation and characterization of the dinuclear AuII hydroxide complex
AuII2 (L) 2 (OH) 2 (L= N, N′‐bis (2, 6‐dimethyl) phenylformamidinate) and study its …