Advances in Transition Metal Catalyzed Cross-Coupling
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2021) | Viewed by 4487
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Transition metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions have gained enormous power in the art of synthetic chemistry by providing a fundamental tool for the formation of a carbon–carbon and a carbon–heteroatom bond in countless relevant academic and industrial applications. Cross-coupling has expended and found applications across many different disciplines, e.g., chemistry, materials science, biology, and is a lively and evolving field. Concerning the substrate scope, current developments are focused on densely functionalized molecules and biomolecules, along with the coupling of (two) hydrocarbons by C-H activation. The so-called oxidative coupling in which two hydrocarbons are coupled in the presence of transition metal and an oxidant opened new avenues of investigation. The development and/or optimization of catalyst performance is one of the key aspects of cross-coupling reactions. Palladium is still a privileged metal that has paved the way for other precious and earth-abundant metals. The latter are promising more sustainable transformations; because of that, the synthesis of new catalysts based on earth-abundant metals and investigation of their catalytic activity are topics of broad interest. Moreover, as an alternative to the traditional single-site cross-coupling that employs one of the metals, i.e., organometallic nucleophile, in stoichiometric amount, an alternative paradigm in which both metals are employed in a catalytic amount, the so-called bimetallic catalysis or dual catalysis, is another step towards making cross-coupling even more ideal. This Special Issue will cover recent progress and trends in cross-coupling catalysis.
Asst. Prof. Martin Gazvoda
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Palladium cross-coupling
- Nickel cross-coupling
- Iron cross-coupling
- Earth-abundant metal catalysts
- Modification of biomolecules
- Oxidative coupling
- Coupling by C-H activation
- Two-fold C-H activation
- Dual catalysis
- Bimetallic catalysis
