Quest for metal/NH bifunctional bioinspired catalysis in a dinuclear platform

Abstract

Bifunctional catalysts, in which two functionalities cooperate in substrate activation and transformation, promote a number of chemical and biological reactions quite efficiently. This perspective mainly describes our efforts to extend the concept of the metal/NH bifunctional mononuclear catalysts to dinuclear systems. The late transition metal dinuclear complexes with bridging sulfonylated nitrogen donors and parent amides (NH₂) are focused on particularly, while the chemistry of related nitrogen-bridged polynuclear complexes is also mentioned.