Issue 20, 2022

Recent advances in heterometallic clusters with f-block metal–metal bonds: synthesis, reactivity and applications

Abstract

Due to the heterometallic synergistic effects from different metals, heterometallic clusters are of great importance in small-molecule activation and catalysis. For example, both biological nitrogen fixation and photosynthetic splitting of water into oxygen are thought to involve multimetallic catalytic sites with d-block transition metals. Benefitting from the larger coordination numbers of f-block metals (rare-earth metals and actinide elements), heterometallic clusters containing f-block metal–metal bonds have long attracted the interest of both experimental and theoretical chemists. Therefore, a series of effective strategies or platforms have been developed in recent years for the construction of heterometallic clusters with f-block metal–metal bonds. More importantly, synergistic effects between f-block metals and transition metals have been observed in small-molecule activation and catalysis. This tutorial review highlights the recent advances in the construction of heterometallic molecular clusters with f-block metal–metal bonds and also their reactivities and applications. It is hoped that this tutorial review will persuade chemists to develop more efficient strategies to construct clusters with f-block metal–metal bonds and also further expand their applications with heterometallic synergistic effects.

Graphical abstract: Recent advances in heterometallic clusters with f-block metal–metal bonds: synthesis, reactivity and applications

Article information

Article type
Tutorial Review
Submitted
27 Mai 2022
First published
27 Sep 2022

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2022,51, 8434-8449

Recent advances in heterometallic clusters with f-block metal–metal bonds: synthesis, reactivity and applications

W. Fang, Q. Zhu and C. Zhu, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2022, 51, 8434 DOI: 10.1039/D2CS00424K

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