A new Iron Age! Making Iron complexes fit for C-C cross-coupling catalysis.

该项目旨在开发新的铁催化剂，以替代目前用于精细化学品领域最重要的单一步骤C-C键形成反应的昂贵且日益稀有的贵金属。 该项目期望通过将半不稳定配体引入铁络合物的骨架中以控制空配位位点的数量来创建灵活而稳健的框架。 该项目的预期成果是：1）能够催化来自可持续底物的联芳基偶联的铁络合物; 2）关于铁基催化过程的结构-性质关系的知识。 澳大利亚将受益于利用自己的资源，并帮助保护有价值的贵金属，以供依赖它们的工艺使用。

This project aims to develop new iron catalysts as alternatives to the expensive and increasingly rare noble metals currently used in C-C bond forming reactions, the most important single-step in the fine-chemicals sector. This project expects to create a flexible yet robust framework by introducing a hemilabile ligand into the backbone of the iron complex to control the number of vacant coordination sites. Expected outcomes of this project are 1) iron complexes able to catalyse biaryl couplings from sustainable substrates and 2) knowledge on structure-property relationships of iron-based catalytic processes. Australia will benefit by applying its own resources and help preserving the valuable noble metals for processes relying on them.