This book presents recent advances in dinuclear complexes in which the metal-metal cooperative effect operates for obtaining substrate activation and high performance catalysts. Catalysis continues to be a fast expanding area to design efficient tools in synthesis and in industrial chemistry. It allows performing syntheses with short reaction times, atom economy, reduced consumption of energy and loss of reagents, and low level of wastes. Dinuclear complexes are known to be more efficient than the mononuclear analogues for the reaction rates and the selectivities. This book analyses the latest research, focusing on the key concepts, in building and using these dinuclear complexes. The book is aimed at researchers, graduate students and chemists at all levels in academia and industry.

Presents concepts governing the cooperative effect in dinuclear complexes Highlights the benefits of dinuclear complexes as catalysts Contributions from leading experts in the field

Autorentext
Ingénieur Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Toulouse (1967); Thèse d'Etat (1975) on rhodium coordination chemistry (prepared with Prof R. Poilblanc). Professor at ENSCT (1980), started coordination catalysis, author of 199 papers, 41 reviews and 29 patents, 1 book; 55 supervised doctoral theses.

Inhalt
Dinuclear Reactivity of One Metal Exalted by the Second One.- Chemical Transformations in Heterobimetallic Complexes Facilitated by the Second Coordination Sphere.- Role of a Redox-Active Ligand Close to a Dinuclear Activating Framework.- Bimetallic oxidative addition or reductive elimination on M-M'.- Magnetism in Binuclear Compounds: Theoretical Insights.