Silver Complexes in Organic Transformations

In recent years, silver catalysts have unexpectedly occupied a place in the synthetic organic chemist's arsenal and opened a new road for the synthesis of organic molecules, which have been well documented in the recent literatures. This chapter focuses on the highly reactivity of the silver complexes to promote organic reactions. Considering the extensive development of the field of ligand chemistry, it concentrates on ligands that are coordinated to silver metal and have shown special catalytic activity and wide utility in the field of contemporary silver catalysis. The chapter focuses on N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-silver(I) complexes, chiral silver phosphates, P,O-type ligand silver(I) complexes, trispyrazolylborate-silver(I), and silver complexes with pyridine-containing ligands in the organic transformations. It explores further developments in silver catalysis and also explores the challenging reactions. The chapter shows that the presence of ligands complexes make the corresponding silver complexes stable and reactive to facilitate the reactions with a decreased energy barrier.