Download or read book Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis of Iron with Noninnocent Ligands written by Qiu Ming Liang and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of iron catalysts is attractive owing to the ready availability, relatively low cost and low toxicity of iron, its oxides and many of its salts comparing to noble metals. Iron complexes are capable of not only the standard two-electron processes, but also single electron transfer reactions that are less prevalent in noble metal chemistry. In Nature, many iron-containing metalloenzymes make use of the noninnocent properties of ligands coordinated to the iron center in their active sites. Inspired by this, my thesis examines the fundamental coordination chemistry and catalysis of iron complexes using noninnocent ligands. The first part (Chapter 2−4) of my thesis describes the synthesis and reactivity of iron complexes bearing bidentate picolyl−NHC (NHC = N-heterocyclic carbene) ligands In Chapter 2, the coordination chemistry and reactivity of picolyl−NHC iron and ruthenium complexes were explored, which includes the diverse coordination modes of picolyl−NHC ligands upon deprotonation, metal-ligand cooperation, and small molecule binding. In Chapter 3, an unusual ligand rearrangement of a deprotonated picolyl−NHC ligand on iron and ruthenium was investigated. Chapter 4 describes the iron-catalyzed geminal-specific alkyne dimerization. The second part describes (Chapter 5) the synthesis and reactivity of iron complexes bearing bidentate o-phenylenediamide ligands including the syntheses of biomimetic [2Fe2S] clusters and their catalytic reactivity in catalytic silylation of dinitrogen.