abstract
- © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Direct synthesis of coordination compounds has become an active area of chemical research due to its ability to generate organometallic complexes starting from elemental metals. Some advantages of direct synthesis are its use as a facile experimental technique, shorter synthesis time, and more convenient control over the whole process. The main advantage of the direct synthesis method is one-pot preparation of the target compounds from cheap reagents with high yields in one technological stage under mild synthetic conditions. Some organometallic complexes obtained by direct synthesis have been applied in the catalysis field. For example, heterometallic coordination compounds with CuII/CoIII/FeIII and CuII/CoIII/CoII cores have been shown to act as remarkably active and selective catalysts for oxidation of cycloalkanes with hydrogen peroxide under mild conditions. Heterometallic complexes can also be used as intermediaries in catalyst synthesis by using heterometallic nano oxides, simplifying the synthesis and providing special features that promote a higher activity. The objective of this chapter is to present the application of heterometallic complexes prepared via direct synthesis, as reagents to obtain catalysts or as catalysts themselves.