There has been increasing interest in environmentally benign main group metals as alternatives to expensive and toxic transition and rare earth metals as catalysts for chemical transformations. Notably, indium reagents are well-established Lewis acid catalysts in organic syntheses, though the majority of compounds that have been studied include simple trivalent salts such as triflates, chlorides and oxides. However, the use of indium compounds for oxidation/reduction reactions is much less developed. We are interested in developing the potentially rich and “tunable” reaction chemistry of Lewis acidic and redox active main group organometallic complexes. Polydentate alkoxide and thiolate ligands with appropriately chosen architectures may provide novel metal bonding environments and reactive species. Our recent studies into the synthesis and structural characterization of organometallic indium compounds incorporating redox-active dithiolene, 1,2-benzenedithiolate and 2-amidobenzenethiolate ligands will be presented, as well as their reactivity toward mild oxidizing agents.

Reactive indium compounds via redox-active ligands

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