Solvothermal in Situ Metal/Ligand Reactions:  A New Bridge between Coordination Chemistry and Organic Synthetic Chemistry

Abstract

Several important solvothermal (including hydrothermal) in situ metal/ligand reactions and their mechanisms, including dehydrogenative carbon-carbon coupling, hydroxylation of aromatic rings, cycloaddition of organic nitriles with azide and ammonia, transformation of inorganic and organic sulfur, as well as the CuII to CuI reduction, are outlined in this Account. The current progress clearly demonstrates the important potential of such reactions in the crystal engineering of functional coordination compounds and one-pot synthesis of some unusual organic ligands that are inaccessible or not easily obtainable via conventional methods, thereby substantiating our expectation that a new bridge has been created between coordination chemistry and synthetic organic chemistry.

A multicentre-bonded [ZnI]8 cluster with cubic aromaticity

“…The same approach was used previously for in situ reduction of Cu II and Fe III to yield LOS ions 32 . Here we report the syntheses of two compounds, Na 2.6 K 1.4 {[Na(DMF)] 8 3 ], NaN 3 and Zn II salts under solvothermal conditions, with the yield of B26 and B15%, respectively.…”

Crystal structure of catena-poly[aqua-(methanol-κO)-bis(μ2-4-(pyridin-4-yl)benzoato-κ2 N:O)-bis(triphenylphospine-κP)disilver(I)], C61H52Ag2N2O6P2

“…Meanwhile, heterocyclic ligands containing nitrogen and carboxyl groups are employed in many laboratories in recent years. A great deal of attention has been paid on ligands which have heterocyclic nitrogen atoms and carboxylate groups mainly because of their potential applications [4,5]. As known to all, silver(I) salts are classified as a kind of soft acid.…”

Crystal Structure of 1,1′-dimethyl-[4,4′-bipyridine]-1,1′-diium tetrachloridozincate(II), C12H14Cl4N2Zn

“…Organically templated inorganic hybrid materials have attracted much interest due to their intriguing architectures and topologies as well as fascinating physical properties [3][4][5][6]. Viologen and related derivatives have been widely used as templates to construct metal-halide-viologen complexes with various structure types because of their application in biology, electrochemistry and photochemistry [7][8][9][10].…”