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Ligand Design for Electrochemically Controlling Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactivity of Transition Metals
Author(s) -
Allgeier Alan M.,
Mirkin Chad A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(19980420)37:7<894::aid-anie894>3.0.co;2-l
Subject(s) - reactivity (psychology) , redox , transition metal , ligand (biochemistry) , catalysis , chemistry , stoichiometry , selectivity , metal , non innocent ligand , inorganic chemistry , photochemistry , combinatorial chemistry , materials science , organic chemistry , medicine , biochemistry , alternative medicine , receptor , pathology
Changing the oxidation state of redox‐active ligands is a powerful method for electrochemically controlling the reactivity and selectivity of bound transition metals (see drawing on the right). In some cases reaction rates can be increased by many orders of magnitude simply by removing an electron from a metal–ligand complex. In the case of polymeric redox‐active ligands, a continuous range of properties can be achieved for the transition metal complex.