Group 11 tris(pyrazolyl)methane complexes: structural features and catalytic applications

José María Muñoz-Molina; Tomás R Belderrain; Pedro J Pérez

doi:10.1039/c9dt01661a

Group 11 tris(pyrazolyl)methane complexes: structural features and catalytic applications

Dalton Trans. 2019 Aug 7;48(29):10772-10781. doi: 10.1039/c9dt01661a. Epub 2019 Jun 3.

Authors

José María Muñoz-Molina¹, Tomás R Belderrain¹, Pedro J Pérez¹

Affiliation

¹ Laboratorio de Catálisis Homogénea, Unidad Asociada al CSIC, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Química, Universidad de Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain. perez@dqcm.uhu.es.

PMID: 31157344
DOI: 10.1039/c9dt01661a

Abstract

Tris(pyrazolyl)methane ligands (Tpm^x) have been for years a step behind their highly popular boron-anionic analogues, the tris(pyrazolyl)borate ligands (Tp^x). However, in the last decade the development of new members of this family of ligands has boosted a number of contributions albeit their use in coordination chemistry. This fact has also triggered the application of metal-Tpm^x complexes as catalysts for a range of organic transformations, particularly with group 11 metals. The main structural features of complexes containing the Tpm^xM (M = Cu, Ag, Au) unit and their success as catalysts in a variety of reactions under homogeneous or heterogeneous conditions are presented.