Late Transition Metal Hydroxide in Homogeneous Catalysis

在能源和材料经济方面，开发导致很少或没有废物的催化方法是一个至关重要的领域。本提案提出的策略组装复杂的分子结构或增值化合物使用简单合成的有机金属配合物。该提案采用了双管齐下的方法。一方面提出了有机金属催化剂的设计和合成，另一方面，我们小组已经合成的一些催化剂和新提出的催化剂将在重要的绿色化学转化中进行测试。这些定义明确的配合物的催化活性范围从碳-氢键功能化使用二氧化碳到氟源。该提案的目的是开发和理解有用的合成工具和方法，这些工具和方法很容易转移到合成化学家手中，允许使用大量未充分利用的资源（如CO2和C-H键）合成复杂分子组装的简单协议。

The development of catalytic methods leading to little or no waste is an area of crucial importance in terms of energy and materials economy. The present proposal presents strategies to assemble complex molecular architectures or value-added compounds using simply synthesized organometallic complexes. The proposal adopts a two-prong approach. On the one side the design and synthesis of organometallic catalysts are proposed and on the other, some of the catalysts already synthesized by our group and the novel ones proposed will be tested in important greener chemical transformations. The catalytic activity of these well-defined complexes range from C-H bond functionalisation using CO2 to fluorine sources. The aims of the proposal are to develop and understand useful synthetic tools and methods, readily transferable to synthetic chemists, permitting facile protocols enabling the synthesis of complex molecular assemblies using plentiful under-utilised resources such as CO2 and C-H bonds.