Multimetallic (de)hydrogenation catalysed processes

Abstract

The use of different metals working together in a synergistic way, allows synthetic transformations that are not achievable by other means. The metal cooperation becomes important in catalytic processes for the synthesis of sophisticated molecules or difficult transformations. A rationale design of multimetallic catalysed processes entails metal complexes and reaction conditions being compatible, which in general is not straightforward. A key feature for success found in all systems dealing with multimetallic processes is catalyst stability. The use of robust metal complexes increases the probability of success in the search of tandem catalytic processes. This microreview is based on the recent and most important findings of multimetallic catalysed processes that involved (de)hydrogenation reactions. The field constitutes a research area that is full of potential and can be foreseen that relevant applications will be described in the near future.