Defined cooperativity in catalytic Ru-Cu polynuclear systems (B07*)

• Subject Area: Organic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation
• Term: from 2015 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 142808194

The aim of this project is to prepare homo- and hetero-dinuclear complexes based on Ru and Cu, and toapply the resulting defined organometallic species as catalysts in cross-dehydrogenative-coupling (CDC)amination reactions. The ligands are made of three tethered parts: 1) the coordination site of Ru, generallyan electron-rich ¿-arene system, 2) the coordination site of Cu, generally a carboxylate moiety, and 3) a covalentorganic linker between the two. The nature of the coordination sites of Ru and Cu derive from ourknowledge of CDC-amination reactions, which we studied in detail over the first funding period. These indicatethat one single metal alone cannot achieve such a reactivity. We expect the developed cooperativepolynuclear catalysts to improve significantly the scope of CDC-amination reactions.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 88: Cooperative Effects in Homo- and Heterometallic Complexes (3MET)
• Applicant Institution: Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Frederic W. Patureau