scholarly journals Metal–Ligand Bifunctional Catalysis: The “Accepted” Mechanism, the Issue of Concertedness, and the Function of the Ligand in Catalytic Cycles Involving Hydrogen Atoms

ACS Catalysis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 6635-6655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel A. Dub ◽  
John C. Gordon
ChemInform ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoji Noyori ◽  
Takeshi Ohkuma ◽  
Christian A. Sandoval ◽  
Kilian Muniz

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Gotthold Vinum ◽  
Laura Voigt ◽  
Steen Hansen ◽  
Colby Bell ◽  
Kensha Marie Clark ◽  
...  

<p>The quest for simple ligands to participate in concerted base metal-ligand multiple-electron redox events is driven by perspectives of replacing noble metals in catalysis and for discovering novel chemical reactivity. Yet the vast majority of simple ligand systems displays electrochemical potentials impractical for catalytic cycles substantiating the importance of new strategies towards aligned metal–ligand orbital energy levels. We herein demonstrate the possibility to establish and tame the elusive <i>non-innocence</i> of the ubiquitous acetylacetonate (acac), that is the most commonly employed anionic, chelating ligand towards elements across the entire Periodic Table. By employing the ligand field in the high-spin Cr(II) as a thermodynamic switch, we were able to chemically tailor the occurrence of metal–ligand redox events. The very mechanism can be understood as a destabilization of the d<i><sub>z</sub></i>2 orbital relative to the <i>pi</i>* LUMO of acac, which proffers a generalizable strategy to synthetically engineer non-innocence with seemingly redox-inactive ligands. </p>


ChemInform ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (38) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
Ryoji Noyori ◽  
Takeshi Ohkuma ◽  
Christian A. Sandoval ◽  
Kilian Muniz

Author(s):  
Ryoji Noyori ◽  
Christian A Sandoval ◽  
Kilian Muñiz ◽  
Takeshi Ohkuma

Chiral diphosphine/1,2-diamine–Ru(II) complexes catalyse the rapid, productive and enantioselective hydrogenation of simple ketones. The carbonyl-selective hydrogenation takes place via a non-classical metal–ligand bifunctional mechanism. The reduction of the C=O function occurs in the outer coordination sphere of an 18e trans -RuH 2 (diphosphine)(diamine) complex without interaction between the unsaturated moiety and the metallic centre. The Ru atom donates a hydride and the NH 2 ligand delivers a proton through a pericyclic six-membered transition state, directly giving an alcoholic product without metal alkoxide formation. The enantiofaces of prochiral ketones are differentiated on the chiral molecular surface of the saturated RuH 2 species. This asymmetric catalysis manifests the significance of ‘kinetic’ supramolecular chemistry.


ChemInform ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoji Noyori ◽  
Christian A. Sandoval ◽  
Kilian Muniz ◽  
Takeshi Ohkuma

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuo-Wei Huang ◽  
Theo P Goncalves ◽  
Indranil Dutta

Unlike the conventional model of transition metal catalysis, ligands in metal–ligand cooperative (or bifunctional) catalysis are involved in the substrate activations. Such processes have offered unique mechanistic understandings and led...


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