Stamatopoulos Chalkidis

The interesting and tunable properties of N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) and related ligands have rapidly made them an interesting family of compounds in many areas of chemical research.^1-3 In this work, the NHCs employed have a variety of tailor-designed steric and electronic properties, while some contain chiral centers. These NHCs are currently being studied as ligands in the synthesis of novel cobalt-, nickel- and ruthenium-based complexes. These complexes will be investigated with electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical methods, in order to shed light on their electronic structure in their various redox forms.^4-5 Moreover, the activity of these complexes will be tested in (electro)catalytic C-C and C-heteroatom bond formation reactions. The results from the physical measurements and catalysis studies will be correlated to deduce sound structure-activity correlations in catalysis.

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