Unconventional Approaches in Coordination Chemistry and Organometallic Reactivity

Abstract

This contribution highlights a number of approaches developed by coordination and organometallic chemists that go beyond mainstream inorganic reactivity. A few of these strategies have been known for decades and are fundamental tools in synthesis and catalysis, while others are more recent and still belong to a niche. Through selected examples, we show herein how transmetalation, metal exchange, metal cooperativity, and catalytic transformation of metal complexes provide unique new opportunities to expand the reactivity arsenal of inorganic systems for synthetic and technological applications.