Recent progress with pincer transition metal catalysts for sustainability

L Piccirilli, D Lobo Justo Pinheiro, M Nielsen - Catalysts, 2020 - mdpi.com
Our planet urgently needs sustainable solutions to alleviate the anthropogenic global
warming and climate change. Homogeneous catalysis has the potential to play a …

Phosphines and N‐Heterocycles Joining Forces: an Emerging Structural Motif in PNP‐Pincer Chemistry

LS Merz, J Ballmann, LH Gade - European Journal of Inorganic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aminodiphosphines and their monoanionic amido derivatives are among the most widely
used tridentate ligands. A good share of these ligands, in particular the ones that are based …

Four-Electron Reduction of O2 Using Distibines in the Presence of ortho-Quinones

B Zhou, FP Gabbaï - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
This study, which aims to identify atypical platforms for the reduction of dioxygen, describes
the reaction of O2 with two distibines, namely, 4, 5-bis (diphenylstibino)-2, 7-di-tert-butyl-9, 9 …

Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid with Ruthenium‐PNP‐Pincer Complexes: Comparing N‐Methylated and NH‐Ligands

A Agapova, E Alberico, A Kammer, H Junge… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Complexes Ru (H)(Cl)(CO)(HN {CH2CH2P (iPr) 2} 2) 7 and Ru (H)(Cl)(CO)(CH3N
{CH2CH2P (iPr) 2} 2) 8 were compared for the selective dehydrogenation (DH) of formic …

Control of Catalyst Isomers Using an N-Phenyl-Substituted RN(CH2CH2PiPr2)2 Pincer Ligand in CO2 Hydrogenation and Formic Acid Dehydrogenation

JB Curley, C Hert, WH Bernskoetter, N Hazari… - Inorganic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A novel pincer ligand, iPrPNPhP [PhN (CH2CH2PiPr2) 2], which is an analogue of the
versatile MACHO ligand, iPrPNHP [HN (CH2CH2PiPr2) 2], was synthesized and …

Additive‐Free Formic Acid Dehydrogenation Using a Pincer‐Supported Iron Catalyst

JB Curley, WH Bernskoetter, N Hazari - ChemCatChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The iron complex (iPrPNMeP) Fe (H) 2 (CO)(iPrPNMeP= CH3N (CH2CH2PiPr2) 2), which
features a pincer ligand with a tertiary amine, can give up to 100,000 turnovers for additive …

Ru0 or RuII: A Study on Stabilizing the “Activated” Form of Ru-PNP Complexes with Additional Phosphine Ligands in Alcohol Dehydrogenation and Ester …

DJ Tindall, M Menche, M Schelwies… - Inorganic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The complex Ru-MACHO has been previously shown to undergo uncontrolled degradation
subsequent to base-induced dehydrochlorination in the absence of a substrate. In this study …

Rigid Acridane-Based Pincer Supported Rare-Earth Complexes for cis-1,4-Polymerization of 1,3-Conjugated Dienes

F You, J Zhai, YM So, X Shi - Inorganic Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
A convenient synthetic route has been developed for preparing the novel rigid 4, 5-(PR2) 2–
2, 7, 9, 9-tetramethylacridane-based pincer ligands (acri-RPNP; R= i Pr and Ph), and the first …

Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel Complexes Supported by a iPrPNPhP Pincer Ligand

JB Curley, TM Townsend, WH Bernskoetter… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of a series of Fe, Co, and Ni complexes supported by an iPrPNPhP
(iPrPNPhP= PhN (CH2CH2PiPr2) 2) pincer ligand is described. These complexes were …

Iridium complexes of acridine-based PNP-type pincer ligands: Synthesis, structure and reactivity

Y Lavi, M Montag, Y Diskin-Posner, L Avram… - Inorganica Chimica …, 2024 - Elsevier
Acridine-based PNP-type pincer ligands (AcrPNP) have previously been used for the
construction of a small number of Ru (II), Mn (I), Rh (III) and Ir (III) complexes, with most …