Development of carbon-carbon bond forming reactions using a heterobimetallic Pd-Fe metal-organic framework as heterogenous catalyst

Abstract

Catalysis is a powerful tool for the synthesis of a wide variety of compounds, it allows to increase the rate in which a chemical reaction reaches the equilibrium without being consumed in the process. However, for the synthesis of more complex compounds usually homogeneous catalysis is needed. Nowadays the research of new heterogeneous catalysts that have both the advantages of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysts has greatly increased. On this field metal-organic frameworks have emerged as powerful catalyst that fulfill both the complexity of the homogeneous catalysts and the easy recyclability and robustness of the heterogeneous catalysts. This thesis presents the principal results obtained in the investigation of the applications of a novel bimetallic framework with iron clusters and a palladium metalloligand in different palladium catalyzed reactions. We focused in the carbon-carbon formation reactions.