Unconventional Approaches in Coordination Chemistry and Organometallic Reactivity

This contribution highlights a number of approaches developed by coordination and organometallic chemists that go beyond mainstream inorganic reactivity. A few of these strategies have been known for decades and are fundamental tools in synthesis and catalysis, while others are more recent and still belong to a niche. Through selected examples, we show herein how transmetalation, metal exchange, metal cooperativity, and catalytic transformation of metal complexes provide unique new opportunities to expand the reactivity arsenal of inorganic systems for synthetic and technological applications L.S. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish State Research Agency for the grant PID2019-109111RB-I00 and the Spanish Multi-MetDrugs network (RED2018-102471-T) for fruitful discussions. This work was performed under the Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence Program of the Spanish State Research Agency, Grant No. CEX2018-000867-S (DIPC).