OC-Kolloquium: Prof. Dr. Amandine Guérinot, EPSCI Paris

Prof. Dr. Amandine Guérinot, EPSCI Paris:
Earth-abundant metal (photo)catalysis: radical games

Over the last decades, earth-abundant metal complexes (Fe, Co, Cu, Ni) emerged as an attractive alternative to precious metal catalysts, especially for C-C bond formation through cross-coupling reactions. Beside their natural abundance, iron, cobalt, nickel or copper catalysts exhibit a complementary reactivity compared to other transition metal catalysts. In particular, when 2e- processes are favored in Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, single-electron transfers are prevalent when first row transition metals are used. The transient formation of radical intermediates thus marked a divergence of reactivity opening new synthetic opportunities.