This talk will discuss efforts to design bifunctional transition metal complexes that bear amine bases in the secondary coordination sphere, designed to facilitate intramolecular heterolytic C–H bond cleavage of sigma-bound C–H bonds. Ultimately we hope these systems will provide a means to systematically control and favor C–H cleavage across orthogonal groups (M–R and N–H). Preliminary results with d8-transition metal frameworks (PdII/PtII and RhI/IrI) will be presented, which include studies of cyclometallation of sp2- and sp3-CH bonds via formal heterolytic activation.

Heterolytic activation of C–H bonds via bifunctional transition metal platforms

251st National Meeting (2016)

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