Reduced iron and cobalt complexes bearing tridentate ligands such as bis(imino)pyridines, bis(carbene)pyridine sand bis(phosphine)pyridines exhibit a rich catalytic chemistry including olefin hydrogenation, hydrosilylation and C-H functionalization. My lecture will address whether each class of supporting ligand can be redox active and what role the resulting electronic structure plays on fundamental transformations such as oxidative addition. Integration of spectroscopy and theory are key to our understanding of this chemistry and will also be an emphasis.

Understanding the electron structure of reduced iron and cobalt compounds

248th National Meeting (2014)

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