Dear Colleagues,

Over the past few decades, the development of original and efficient processes to perform synthesis of renewable and/or affordable chemicals with widespread applications in industry has progressively become a topic of great interest. Transition-metal catalysis has undoubtedly participated in this area, with four Nobel Prizes in chemistry since the 1960s, for (1) Ziegler−Natta polymerizations, (2) the development of the metathesis, (3) palladium-catalyzed cross coupling reactions, and (4) chirality and asymmetric catalysis. In fact, all these prompt advances have significantly changed our world, notably by broadening the uses of fossil fuels, but also by enabling the discovery of many novel synthetic molecules and materials.

However, due to the exponential population growth, the global energy crisis, and the environmental burden, the need for the development of more efficient and environmentally friendly metal-based catalytic systems will become even more critical in the forthcoming decades.

In this context, this Special Issue aims to cover the most recent progresses and advances toward the design, synthesis, and characterization of novel metal catalysts, as well as their applications in environmental remediations and new routes for the production of molecules of biological, (photo)physical, agrochemical, and pharmaceutical interest.

This Special Issue welcomes contributions on (but not restricted to):

• — Supported metal catalysts
• — Metal–organic frameworks as catalysts
• — Multicatalysis
• — Transition metal catalysts
• — Air- and moisture-tolerant catalysts
• — Metal catalyzed Csp²‒H or Csp³‒H functionalization of C-, O-, S- or N-heterocycles
• — Photoinduced metal-catalyzed transformations
• — Chiral metal complexes
• — Artificial metalloenzymes and metallopeptide catalysts
• — Metal-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis

Dr. Cyril Nicolas
Prof. Dr. Isabelle Gillaizeau
Guest Editors

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• metal catalysts
• organic synthesis