Abstract
Transition metal complexes encompass a unique pool of building blocks with diverse stereochemical, electrochemical and photophysical features. Despite the current interest in employing polypyridine-containing coordination compounds for the fabrication of functional assemblies, their full potential as synthetic building blocks remains under-utilized. The account discusses the inspiration and rationale for advancing the synthetic chemistry of coordination compounds and presents recent developments where the complexity of these intriguing ‘inorganic’ building blocks is increased via ‘organic’ transformations.
1 Introduction
2 Why Metal-Containing Materials?
3 Why Develop the Organic Chemistry of Coordination
4 Selecting a Parent Ligand
5 Functionalizing 1,10-Phenanthroline
6 Coordination Compounds as Building Blocks
6.1 Cross-Coupling Reactions
6.2 Radical Transformations
6.3 Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitutions
7 Where do we go from here?
8 Summary
Key words
coordination compounds - cross coupling - metal-containing materials - nucleophilic aromatic substitutions - 1,10-phenanthroline
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