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Chemistry
2018
Journal of Organic & Inorganic Chemistry
ISSN 2472-1123
F e b r u a r y 1 9 - 2 0 , 2 0 1 8
P a r i s , F r a n c e
Chemistry 2018
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etal-promoted catalysis creates a great variety of challenges mostly related
to the transient formation of coordinatively unsaturated metal complexes.
The latter, long considered as chemical chimeras are central to the rationalization
of reaction mechanisms. It will be shown that such species can be isolated in a
persistent form, thanks to the stabilization provided by non-covalent interactions
(NCIs). The concept of “Hemichelation” relies on the central cohesive role of NCIs
and allows the ready isolation of T-shaped metal complexes for instance. Further,
proper understanding of metal-ligand interaction is still an important domain
of research. It will be shown that, in the field of metal-promoted hydrosilylation,
renewed insight into the electronic structure of metal (silane) adducts may clarify
the potentials of those key reaction intermediates.
Biography
Jean-Pierre Djukic is Director of Research at the CNRS in Stras-
bourg and heads the Laboratory for Organometallic Chemistry
and Systemics within the Institute of Chemistry of Strasbourg
(UMR CNRS 7177). He obtained a PhD in 1992 from Pierre and
Marie Curie University in Paris under the guidance of E Rose,
was Associate Researcher with L K Woo at Iowa State Univer-
sity from 1993 to 1994 and an Alexander von Humboldt fellow
with K H Dötz at the University of Bonn from 1996 to 1997. He
is currently heading a research effort in organometallic chem-
istry at the CNRS in Strasbourg, which he joined in 1994. Since
2014, he is involved in an interdisciplinary ANR-DFG-funded
consortium with the group S Grimme (Bonn, Germany), which
deals with cohesion in transition metal chemistry. Since Janu-
ary 2015, he is Chairing the Scientific Council of the Institute of
Chemistry of the CNRS.
djukic@unistra.frFrom fundamental organometallics to
catalysis: the quest for “fuzzy”
metal-metal and metal-ligand bonds
Jean-Pierre Djukic
Université de Strasbourg, France
Jean-Pierre Djukic, J Org Inorg Chem 2018, Volume: 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-1123-C1-001