Frustration and Cooperation in Bimetallic Complexes

Since we started as a group in 2017, we became very interested in combining the powerful chemistry of transition metals with the concept of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs). Our first aim was to obtain the first FLP where the two components are transition metals, a goal that we fulfilled with our most studied platform, a Au(I)/Pt(0) pair. Since then, we have tried to answer a number of fundamental questions:

How relevant are M···M interactions in bimetallic FLPs?
Does the interaction between bulky fragments need to be fully frustrated for enhanced reactivity?
How does the nature of the two metals influence reactivity?
How is the reactivity of soft/hard combinations vs hard/hard or soft/soft pairs?
Is the impact of sterics as important as in main group FLPs?
Etc.

    1. For some recent work, see for instance:
  1. Navarro, M.; Campos, J.* Bimetallic frustrated Lewis pairs, chapter 3 in Adv. Organomet. Chem. 2021, 75, 95. Ed. Pedro J. Pérez. [BOOK CHAPTER] 
  2. Hidalgo, N.; Romero-Pérez, C.; Maya, C.; Fernández, I.; Campos, J.* Reactivity of [Pt(PtBu3)2] with Zinc(I/II) Compounds: Bimetallic Adducts, Zn–Zn Bond Cleavage, and Cooperative Reactivity, Organometallics, 2021, 40, 1113.
  3. Alférez, M. G.; Hidalgo, N.; Moreno, J. J.; Campos, J.* Reversible Hydride Migration from C5Me5 to RhI Revealed by a Cooperative Bimetallic Approach, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020,59, 20863.
  4. Hidalgo, N.; Moreno, J. J.; Pérez-Jiménez, M.; Maya, C.; López-Serrano, J.; Campos, J.* Evidence for Genuine Bimetallic Frustrated Lewis Pair Activation of Dihydrogen with Gold(I)/Platinum(0) Systems, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 5982. [FRONT COVER] 
  5. Campos, J.* Bimetallic cooperation across the periodic table, Nat. Rev. Chem. 2020, 4, 696.
  6. Campos, J. Dihydrogen and Acetylene Activation by a Gold(I)/Platinum(0) Transition Metal Only Frustrated Lewis Pair, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 2944