Exploiting chemical cooperativity in main-group bimetallic catalysis

By switching on cooperative effects, main-group heterobimetallic reagents find widespread applications in cornerstone stoichiometric transformations, offering special reactivities and selectivities inaccessible by conventional monometallic reagents. Recent advances have successfully upgraded these stoichiometric successes to catalytic regimes that are underpinned by the unique cooperative partnership between the two distinct metals. By switching on cooperative effects, main-group heterobimetallic reagents find widespread applications in cornerstone stoichiometric transformations, offering special reactivities and selectivities inaccessible by conventional monometallic reagents. Recent advances have successfully upgraded these stoichiometric successes to catalytic regimes that are underpinned by the unique cooperative partnership between the two distinct metals.