Pincer Complexes Based on Phosphinoaminopyridines: Synthesis, Structural Characterization and Catalytic Applications

Abstract

This review presents a recent progress in coordination and organometallic chemistry of metal complexes of chelating ligands with pyridine backbone, particularly bidentate [PN] and tridentate [PNP] aminophosphine ligands. The preparation of the ligands, their metal complexes, and the subsequent reactivity studies along with structural properties are discussed.

Recent Progress with Pincer Transition Metal Catalysts for Sustainability

“…After the first family of PCP complexes was synthetized by Shaw in 1976 [7], numerous research groups have applied this concept for almost all types of homogeneously catalyzed chemical reactions. A myriad of novel complexes with different pincer arms have been synthetized and characterized, including a vast family of carbene pincers [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23], PNP [24][25][26][27][28][29], PNN [30,31], POP [32], PCP [33][34][35][36][37][38], SNS [39,40], NCN [41], NSiN [42], CNC [43], CNN [44], NNN [45], as well as sulfur- [46][47][48], silicon- [49,50], selenium- [51,52], and boron-functionalized [53,…”