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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.

Searching for Mechanistic Keys to Unlock Small-Molecule Activation Catalysis: The Two Faces of Redox Non-Innocence in Water Oxidation and C–H Activation

2014-02-14l 조회수 490
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연사 : Prof. Mu-Hyun Baik (Korea University)
일시 : 2014-06-05 16:30 ~
장소 : 25-1동 103호
일 시 : 2014년 6월 5일, 오후 4:30
장 소 : 25-1동 국제회의실

-Abstract-
Redox Non-Innocent ligands have attracted much attention lately, as they appear to play a major role in small molecule activation catalysis: During catalysis ligands participate in redox event by accepting or donating electrons, which affords non-classical electronic structures wherein standard electron counting rules produce misleading clues about the redox state of the metal center. Whereas the existence of this non-classical metal-ligand bonding has now been widely acknowledged, there is only a few examples where the micromechanistic role of these unusual bonding has been precisely identified.
I will discuss two examples where redox non-innocence plays a major role in promoting a difficult chemical transformation: (i) Water oxidation by a dinuclear Ru-complex, where the reactive species contains a (IV)Ru-O· moiety, the redox non-innocent resonant form of the classical (V)Ru=O fragment. (ii) Dioxygen activation in gas phase by [Ni(H)(OH)]+ complex, where a redox non-innocent ligand helps to protect the reactive state against decomposition.