The replacement of noble metal catalysts with earth-abundant metals for important organic transformations involving hydrogenation and dehydrogenation processes is of current urgency in sustainable chemistry. Although traditionally the lack of catalytic activity for non-precious metals has limited their applications in hydrogenation catalysis, recent progress showed great promise of such metals (Fe, Co and Mn) for replacing precious metals with high reactivity and efficiency, based upon rational design of catalysts. In the past few years, we have been dedicated to the development of new, active nonprecious metal catalysts of cobalt, manganese, aluminum and vanadium with readily available ligands in reduction catalysis. Herein, we present our recent results on the syntheses of well-defined organometallic complexes of base metals and their applications as active catalysts for hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, hydrofunctionalization and valuable C-C and C-N coupling reactions via a “hydrogen-borrowing” strategy.<br/>

Earth-abundant metal catalysts for hydrogenation, hydrofunctionalization and dehydrogenative coupling reactions

255th National Meeting (2018)

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