Metal complexes that support two-electron redox processes are attracting a great deal of interest because of their importance in various domains ranging from catalysis to energy conversion.  Over the past decades, it has been demonstrated that late transition bimetallic complexes can sustain important energy storage reactions such as the photoreductive elimination of halogens.  While such complexes usually contain two noble metals, our group has recently shown that heterobimetallic compounds containing a noble metal and a heavy main group element may also have a potential in this area.  In this presentation, we will describe the results of our ongoing work on the photoreductive elimination of halogens from Pt/Te and Pt/Sb complexes.

Photoreduction of main group/late transition metal heterobimetallic complexes

247th National Meeting (2014)

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