Early transition metal and lanthanide amidate complexes: modular, easily accessed complexes for catalysis

早期的过渡金属，如钛和锆，以及稀土金属已成功地用于金属介导型有机合成。作为催化剂，这些金属能够促进通常不能发生的反应。催化对工业应用非常重要，因为它以经济、节能的方式促进化学转化，同时最大限度地减少化学废物。当然，催化是发展环境友好的绿色化学和可持续的化学生产方法的关键。由于早期过渡金属和稀土金属的低成本和低毒性，它们在大规模应用中特别有吸引力。我们的研究小组开发的易于制备、价格低廉的催化络合物在制药、聚合物和精细化工行业中显示出广泛的重要催化转化前景。

Early transition metals, such as titanium and zirconium, and lanthanide metals have been used successfully for metal-mediated organic synthesis. As catalysts, these metals are able to promote reactions that normally cannot occur. Catalysis is very important for industrial applications, as it promotes chemical tranformations in a cost effective, energy efficient manner while minimizing chemical waste. Certainly catalysis is key to the development of environmentally friendly green chemistry and sustainable methods for chemical production. Early transition and lanthanide metals are particularly attractive for large scale applications, due to the fact that they are of low cost and low toxicity. The easily prepared, inexpensive catalytic complexes developed in our research group show promise for a broad range of important catalytic transformations in the pharmaceutical, polymer and fine chemical industries.