Organic synthesis with the most abundant transition metal–iron: from rust to multitasking catalysts

S Rana, JP Biswas, S Paul, A Paik… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In industries and academic laboratories, several late transition metal-catalyzed prerequisite
reactions are widely performed during single and multistep synthesis. However, besides the …

Iron catalysis in reduction and hydrometalation reactions

D Wei, C Darcel - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The last two decades have seen an impressive improvement of the use of iron as a
fascinating and valuable alternative transition metal in homogeneous catalysis in terms of …

Where silylene–silicon centres matter in the activation of small molecules

C Shan, S Yao, M Driess - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Small molecules such as H2, N2, CO, NH3, O2 are ubiquitous stable species and their
activation and role in the formation of value-added products are of fundamental importance …

Efficient Photocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation over Cuδ+‐Modified Defective ZnAl‐Layered Double Hydroxide Nanosheets

S Zhang, Y Zhao, R Shi, C Zhou… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The photocatalytic reduction of nitrogen (N2) with water (H2O) as the reducing agent holds
great promise as a sustainable future technology for the synthesis of ammonia (NH3) …

Chelating bis-silylenes as powerful ligands to enable unusual low-valent main-group element functions

S Yao, A Saddington, Y Xiong… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Silylenes are divalent silicon species with an unoccupied 3p orbital and one
lone pair of electrons at the SiII center. Owing to the excellent σ-donating ability of amidinato …

Isolable Silylene Ligands Can Boost Efficiencies and Selectivities in Metal‐Mediated Catalysis

YP Zhou, M Driess - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A significant number of isolable silylenes are currently known. They have quickly developed
from laboratory curiosities to useful ligands in metal‐mediated homogeneous catalysis. This …

A Bis(silylene)‐Substituted ortho‐Carborane as a Superior Ligand in the Nickel‐Catalyzed Amination of Arenes

YP Zhou, S Raoufmoghaddam, T Szilvási… - Angewandte …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis and structure of the first 1, 2‐bis (NHSi)‐substituted ortho‐carborane [(LSi:) C]
2B10H10 (termed SiCCSi) is reported (NHSi= N‐heterocyclic silylene; L= PhC (NtBu) 2). Its …

Entering new chemical space with isolable complexes of single, zero-valent silicon and germanium atoms

S Yao, Y Xiong, A Saddington, M Driess - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Monatomic zero-valent silicon and germanium complexes (silylones and germylones),
stabilised by neutral donating ligands, emerged only recently as a new class of low-valent …

Divalent silicon-assisted activation of dihydrogen in a bis (N-heterocyclic silylene) xanthene nickel (0) complex for efficient catalytic hydrogenation of olefins

Y Wang, A Kostenko, S Yao… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The first chelating bis (N-heterocyclic silylene) xanthene ligand [SiII (Xant) SiII] as well as its
Ni complexes [SiII (Xant) SiII] Ni (η2-1, 3-cod) and [SiII (Xant) SiII] Ni (PMe3) 2 were …

N-heterocyclic silylenes as powerful steering ligands in catalysis

S Raoufmoghaddam, YP Zhou, Y Wang… - Journal of Organometallic …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present review highlights the role of N-heterocyclic silylene (NHSi) ligands, the silicon
analogues of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), utilized in various catalytic organic …