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Design and development of catalytic reactions for green synthesis and green energy are
major goals of current catalysis. We have developed new, efficient, environmentally
benign reactions catalyzed by pincer-type metal complexes, several of which either
produce hydrogen gas or consume it and proceed by a mode of metal-ligand cooperation
in which both the metal center and the ligand undergo bond making and breaking.
Reactions catalyzed by pincer complexes, in which most of the catalytic activity is
ligand-based, were also developed. Various green synthetic and energy-relaed
applications based on these catalytic reactions will be described, such as mild, waste-free
generation of amide bonds suitable for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals; new syntheses of
heterocycles; oxidation of organic compounds using water as formal oxidant liberating
H 2 ; and new liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs). |