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Electronic Tuning Of Dimolybdenum Complexes Through Symmetry Manipulation Of Formamidinate Ligands In Their Second Coordination Sphere, Iván Alonso Cervantes Cervantes Martã­Nez

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Alternative sustainable energy sources are required to decrease our dependence on carbon-based fuels. Small molecule activation is one of the most promising to fulfill global energy demand and maintain a sustainable world. Most of the industrial processes relevant for global energy supply and expenditure involves small molecules and metal catalysts. However, it is still required to gain fundamental insights on how these catalysts achieve such reactions. Dinuclear compounds, namely dimolybdenum complexes, may serve as a good experimental model to understand metal-metal cooperativity and its influence in catalysis.

In Chapter 2, three unsymmetric aryl formamidines were synthesized and characterized through 1H …