Pincer Compounds

David Morales-Morales carried out his B.Sc. (1992) and M.Sc. (1995) studies at the School of Chemistry of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). In 1995 he was awarded a scholarship by the Mexican Government to carry out Doctoral studies at the University of Essex (UK) under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan R. Dilworth. In 1997, he moved to the “Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory” at the Oxford University (UK), getting his Doctorate in 1998. In the same year Prof. Morales-Morales was offered a posdoctoral position by Prof. Craig. M. Jensen in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, where he carried out research relevant to the development of a new generation of PCP pincer complex and their use in C-H activation and C-C bond formation.A beneficiary of the National Program for Repatriation of the National Science and Technology Council (CONACyT-México), Prof. Morales-Morales has worked since May 2001 as a researcher at the Instituto de Química-UNAM. His research interests include the chemistry of pincer compounds; the synthesis of phosphorus and sulphur-based compounds and its use as ligands with transition metals; metal-mediated organic synthesis; and mechanistic studies.Prof. Morales-Morales has published more than 60 papers and a chapter in the book “Modern Coordination Chemistry”, edited by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2002). More recently he has served as editor of the book “The Chemistry of Pincer Compounds” (Elsevier) and he has co-authored a textbook on Organometallic Chemistry, published in Spanish by UNAM. He belongs to chemistry societies in Mexico and the United States. Prof. Morales-Morales has been a visiting professor at the Instituto de Materiales de Aragón-CSIC (Zaragoza, Spain), The Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut der WWU Münster in Germany, and the Metal Mediated Synthesis - Debye Institute at the University of Utretch (Netherlands).

• 1. Chiral Pincer Complexes for Asymmetric ReactionsJun-ichi Ito and Hisao Nishiyama2. Well-defined Iron and Manganese Pincer CatalystsNikolaus Gorgas and Karl Kirchner3. The Pincer Complexes of Group 13-15 Elements: Recent DevelopmentsLibor Dostal and Roman Jambor4. Reduction of CO2 Mediated or Catalyzed by Pincer ComplexesNathan A. Eberhardt and Hairong Guan5. Mechanistic Insights and Computational Prediction of Base Metal Pincer Complexes for Catalytic Hydrogenation and Dehydrogenation ReactionsXinzheng Yang and Xiangyang Chen6. Hydrogenation and Dehydrogenation Reactions Catalyzed by Iron Pincer CompoundsWesley H. Bernskoetter and Nilay Hazari7. Actinide Pincer Chemistry: A New FrontierConnor S. MacNeil, Tara K.K. Dickie and Paul G. Hayes8. Complexes of NHC-Based CEC Pincer Ligands: Structural Diversity and ApplicationsCaroline M. Storey, Hans P. Cook and Adrian B. Chaplin9. Transition Metal Pincer Complexes With Chiral Imidazoline Donor(s): Synthesis and Asymmetric CatalysisJun-Fang Gong, Xinju Zhu and Mao-Ping Song10. Chiral NCN Pincer-Type Catalysts Having Bis(imidazoline)sKengo Hyodo and Shuichi Nakamura11. Transition Metal Pincer Complexes with a Central sp3-Hybridized Carbon AtomOla F. Wendt12. CCC-NHC Pincer Complexes: Synthesis, Applications, and Catalysis Jason A. Denny, Georgette M. Lang and T. Keith Hollis13. Metal Pincer Catalysts in Aqueous Media: Approaches With Water as Solvent, Reagent, and Molecular Hydrogen StorageJong-Hoo Choi, Hugo Valdes, Dennis Pingen and Martin H.G. Prechtl14. Pincers Based on Dicarboxamide and Dithiocarboxamide Functional GroupsPramod Kumar, Sandeep Kaur, Rajeev Gupta and Kristin Bowman-James15. Pincer Complexes of Iron and Their Application in CatalysisAnu Saini and Michael Findlater16. Osmium Complexes With POP Pincer LigandsMiguel A. Esteruelas and Montserrat Olivan17. Pincer Carbenoid Complexes With Late Transition Metals: Synthesis, Electronic Structure, and ReactivityPeng Cui and Vlad M. Iluc18. Pincer Iridium and Ruthenium Complexes for Alkane DehydrogenationHuaquan Fang, Guixia Liu and Zheng Huang19. Silicon-Based Pincers: Trans Influence and FunctionalityEduardo Sola20. Transition Metal Complexes With Anionic Sulfur-Based Pincer LigandsIvan Castillo21. Metalation and Transmetalation Chemistry of Pyridine- and Aryl-Linked Bis-NHC Pincer Ligands Matthew Asay22. Unsymmetrical Pincer Palladacycles Synthesis and ReactivityGavin Roffe, Sarote Boonseng, Hazel Cox and John Spencer23. Benzene-Derived Organometallic Pincer Compounds Bearing Six-Membered Metallacycles and UpLucero Gonzalez-Sebastia´ n, Daniel Canseco-Gonzalez and David Morales-Morales24. Chemistry of Mn and Co Pincer CompoundsNaveen V. Kulkarni and William D. Jones25. Selective Deuteration of Organic Compounds Catalyzed by Ruthenium Pincer ComplexesBasujit Chatterjee and Gunanathan Chidambaram26. σ-Organometallic Chemistry With 2,6-Bis(imino)pyridine Ligands: New Pathways to Innovative Pincer ArchitecturesJuan Campora, Antonio Rodrıguez-Delgado and Pilar Palma27. Use of Pincer Compounds as Metal- Based Receptors for Chemosensing of Relevant AnalytesAlejandro Dorazco-Gonzalez28. Advances in the Design and Application of Redox-Active and Reactive Pincer Ligands for Substrate Activation and Homogeneous CatalysisJarl Ivar van der Vlugt29. The Chemistry of Bisphosphomide and 1,2-Phenylenediamine Based PBP Pincer Transition Metal Complexes and Catalytic ApplicationsMaravanji S. Balakrishna and Latchupatula Radhakrishna30. Ligand-Introduction Synthesis of NCN-Pincer Complexes and their Chemical PropertiesYasuhiro Uozumi and Go Hamasaka31. Pincer Complexes of Gold: An Overview of Synthesis, Reactivity, Photoluminescence, and Biological ApplicationsBenoıt Bertrand, Manfred Bochmann, Julio Fernandez-Cestau, and Luca Rocchigiani32. Semirigid Pincer-Like SiPSi Ligands: Classical Versus Nonclassical Coordination Modes at Ru, Rh, Ir, and PtJulio Zamora-Moreno and Virginia Montiel-Palma33. Conclusions and Personal CommentGerard van Koten