Recent Advances on the Chemistry of Transition Metal Complexes with Monoanionic Bidentate Silyl Ligands

Abstract

The chemistry of transition‐metal (TM) complexes with monoanionic bidentate (κ2‐L,Si) silyl ligands has considerably grown in recent years. This work summarizes the advances in the chemistry of TM‐(κ2‐L,Si) complexes (L = N‐heterocycle, phosphine, N‐heterocyclic carbene, thioether, ester, silylether and tetrylene). The most common synthetic method has been the oxidative addition of the Si–H bond to the metal center assisted by the coordination of L. The metal‐silyl bond distances in TM‐(κ2‐L,Si) complexes are in the range of metal‐silyl bond distances. TM‐(κ2‐L,Si) complexes have proven to be effective catalysts for hydrosilylation and/or hydrogenation of unsaturated molecules among other processes.