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Recent Advances in Transition Metal Catalysis, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 1566

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Dingyi Wang

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College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China
Interests: photocatalysis; electrosynthesis; transition metal catalysis; polymer chemistry; C–H activation
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Dear Colleagues,

After the great success of this Special Issue‘s first edition, we are pleased to inform you that Molecules will launch the second edition of “Recent Advances in Transition Metal Catalysis”.

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules/special_issues/Transition_Metal_Catalysis

Transition metal catalysis is one of the essential tools in modern organic synthesis chemistry and can be applied to various organic synthetic reactions, including C-H/C-C/C-X functionalization, cyclization, and de-aromatization, among others. While noble metals such as ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, and palladium have been extensively studied in catalysis, reactions catalyzed using inexpensive 3D metals such as manganese, iron, cobalt, and nickel have gradually become a current research hotspot. In addition, the use of visible light/electrochemistry and transition metal co-catalysis strategies to achieve the synthesis of structurally diverse and functionally rich organic small molecules has received widespread attention. The use of transition metal catalysis technology in organic synthesis increases the efficiency of chemical reactions, makes synthetic pathways more concise, and lowers production costs. Thus, their deployment not only greatly promotes the development of chemical science but also brings enormous positive impacts to fields such as medicine, pesticides, advanced materials, national defense, the military, etc.

This Special Issue aims to provide a broad survey of the most recent advances in transition metal-catalyzed synthesis. The Guest Editor welcomes reviews and original research articles associated with recent achievements related to the formation of C-C/C-X bonds along transition metal-catalyzed pathways.

Prof. Dr. Dingyi Wang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • transition metal catalysis
  • photocatalysis
  • electrosynthesis
  • organic synthesis
  • asymmetric synthesis
  • C-H functionalization
  • C-C functionalization
  • C-X functionalization

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Boosting Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Enabled by Iodine-Linked Magnetically Curved Graphene with Mobius-like Electronic Paths
by Liangjun Cai, Hongxia Liu and Xiaoxiao Yan
Molecules 2025, 30(6), 1302; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30061302 - 13 Mar 2025
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Materials with high electron transfer performance remain a key focus in photocatalytic research, as they can effectively promote the separation of photogenerated carriers and enhance the utilization efficiency of photogenerated electrons. To enhance the effective utilization of photogenerated electrons, the MSIG material was [...] Read more.
Materials with high electron transfer performance remain a key focus in photocatalytic research, as they can effectively promote the separation of photogenerated carriers and enhance the utilization efficiency of photogenerated electrons. To enhance the effective utilization of photogenerated electrons, the MSIG material was prepared by incorporating the iodine clusters and magnetic Fe3O4 into the as-synthesized crumpled graphene oxide (CGO) to construct Möbius-like electronic transmission pathways. The introduction of magnetic groups optimized the spin orientation of electrons, facilitating directional electron transport and thereby enhancing the photocatalytic efficiency of the material. Experimental results reveal that, in visible light-driven hydrogen production reactions, the eosin Y (EY)-sensitized Pt-Fe3O4-MSIG catalyst exhibits outstanding catalytic performance, with a hydrogen production rate of 1.48 mL/h, which is 15 times higher than that of the Pt-Fe3O4 catalyst. Photoelectrochemical analyses show a significant increase in the catalyst’s fluorescence lifetime, attributed to the Möbius strip-like electron transport channels within the material. Theoretical calculations further support this by demonstrating that the bandgap widening of the CGO reduces the recombination probability of photogenerated carriers, thereby improving their average lifetime. This study offers a novel approach for the design of visible-light-driven photocatalytic materials. Full article
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Data Checking of Asymmetric Catalysis Literature Using a Graph Neural Network Approach
by Eduardo Aguilar-Bejarano, Viraj Deorukhkar and Simon Woodward
Molecules 2025, 30(2), 355; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30020355 - 16 Jan 2025
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The range of chemical databases available has dramatically increased in recent years, but the reliability and quality of their data are often negatively affected by human-error fidelity. The size of chemical databases can make manual data curation/checking of such sets time consuming; thus, [...] Read more.
The range of chemical databases available has dramatically increased in recent years, but the reliability and quality of their data are often negatively affected by human-error fidelity. The size of chemical databases can make manual data curation/checking of such sets time consuming; thus, automated tools to help this process are highly desirable. Herein, we propose the use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to identifying potential stereochemical misassignments in the primary asymmetric catalysis literature. Our method relies on the use of an ensemble of GNN models to predict the expected stereoselectivity of exemplars for a particular asymmetric reaction. When the majority of these models do not correlate to the reported outcome, the point is labeled as a possible stereochemical misassignment. Such identified cases are few in number and more easily investigated for their cause. We demonstrate the use of this approach to spot potential literature stereochemical misassignments in the ketone products resulting from catalytic asymmetric 1,4-addition of organoboron nucleophiles to Michael acceptors in two different databases, each one using a different family of chiral ligands (bisphosphine and diene ligands). Our results demonstrate that this methodology is useful for curation of medium-sized databases, speeding this process significantly compared to complete manual curation/checking. In the datasets investigated, human expert checking was reduced to 2.2% and 3.5% of the total data exemplars. Full article
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