Laboratory of metal complex catalysis

The introduction of an igneous metal into the coordination compound of a platinum group metal can significantly change the structure and catalytic properties of the initial platinum complex. In addition to academic interest, such heterometallic complexes attract attention as convenient starting compounds for the production of nanoscale alloys and catalytically active materials based on them. A large number of bi- and polynuclear coordination compounds of platinum and palladium containing transition and post-transition metals are known. However, in the vast majority of cases, such complexes include N-, P-, S- or halide donor ligands. The use of heteropolyuclear complexes containing N-, P-, S- or halide ligands for this purpose is usually associated with the need to remove such ligands or products of their transformations formed during preparation, and the resulting metal materials are difficult to get rid of impurities of nitrides, phosphides or sulfides of the corresponding base metals. Carboxylate, primarily acetate heterometallic complexes are free from these disadvantages and are promising compounds for obtaining new functional materials.