Fang Wei, Zhu Qin, Zhu Congqing
State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Chem Soc Rev. 2022 Oct 17;51(20):8434-8449. doi: 10.1039/d2cs00424k.
Due to the heterometallic synergistic effects from different metals, heterometallic clusters are of great importance in small-molecule activation and catalysis. For example, both biological nitrogen fixation and photosynthetic splitting of water into oxygen are thought to involve multimetallic catalytic sites with d-block transition metals. Benefitting from the larger coordination numbers of f-block metals (rare-earth metals and actinide elements), heterometallic clusters containing f-block metal-metal bonds have long attracted the interest of both experimental and theoretical chemists. Therefore, a series of effective strategies or platforms have been developed in recent years for the construction of heterometallic clusters with f-block metal-metal bonds. More importantly, synergistic effects between f-block metals and transition metals have been observed in small-molecule activation and catalysis. This tutorial review highlights the recent advances in the construction of heterometallic molecular clusters with f-block metal-metal bonds and also their reactivities and applications. It is hoped that this tutorial review will persuade chemists to develop more efficient strategies to construct clusters with f-block metal-metal bonds and also further expand their applications with heterometallic synergistic effects.
由于不同金属之间的异金属协同效应，异金属簇合物在小分子活化和催化方面具有重要意义。例如，生物固氮以及水分解为氧气的光合作用都被认为涉及具有d区过渡金属的多金属催化位点。受益于f区金属（稀土金属和锕系元素）更大的配位数，含有f区金属-金属键的异金属簇合物长期以来吸引了实验化学家和理论化学家的关注。因此，近年来已经开发了一系列有效的策略或平台来构建具有f区金属-金属键的异金属簇合物。更重要的是，在小分子活化和催化中已经观察到f区金属与过渡金属之间的协同效应。本教程综述重点介绍了具有f区金属-金属键的异金属分子簇合物构建方面的最新进展及其反应性和应用。希望本教程综述能促使化学家们开发更有效的策略来构建具有f区金属-金属键的簇合物，并进一步利用异金属协同效应扩展其应用。
