Dipanjana Choudhury

Nov 18, 2024 | chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Dipanjana Choudhury |Dominic Wright

Introduction Transition metals have had a central role in the fields of organic synthesis and catalysis for over a century.1, 2 Most commonly, complexes of precious transitions metals such as rhenium, osmium, platinum, and palladium, have been used in single-site, homogeneous catalysis for a range of transformations, such as dehydrocoupling, alkene polymerisation, hydrogenation, hydrosilylation, hydroboration, and hydrophosphination.

Mar 13, 2024 | chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Dipanjana Choudhury |Nadia Farag |Jonathan L. Slaughter |Andrew Bond

Introduction Transition metals have maintained a central role in the fields of synthesis and catalysis for decades. Owing to their easily accessible and highly variable oxidation states, transition metals have been considered to possess richer chemistry than that of main group metals.1 However, precious (4d and 5d) transition metals have low natural abundance and are expensive, and their extraction is often not environmentally benign.