Pablo González-Herrero

Research highlights

Organometallic photochemistry

The photoreactivity of electronically excited organometallic complexes is currently attracting considerable interest due to its relevance in the development of photocatalytic processes within the framework of light-induced transition-metal catalysis. Our research on luminescent Pt(II) and Pt(IV) complexes bearing cyclometalated 2-arylpyridine ligands has led to the discovery of several new photochemical reactions, some of which involve fundamental organometallic transformations:

Relevant publications:

Photoinduced Reductive C–O Couplings from Unsymmetrical Bis-Cyclometalated Pt(IV) Dicarboxylato Complexes.

López-López, J. C.; Bautista, D.; González-Herrero, P. Inorg. Chem. 2025, 64, 662–673.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03667










Photoinduced Reductive C–C and C–Heteroatom Couplings from Bis-cyclometalated Pt(IV) Alkynyl Complexes.

López-López, J. C; Bautista, D.; González-Herrero, P. Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 14411–14421.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02162










Photochemically Induced Cyclometalations at Simple Platinum(II) Precursors.

Poveda, D.; Vivancos, Á.; Bautista, D.; González-Herrero, P.  Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 6207–6213.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00688










Phosphorescent biaryl platinum(IV) complexes obtained through double metalation of dibenzoiodolium ions

López-López, J. C.; Bautista, D.; González-Herrero, P.  Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 4532–4535.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC01018F










Luminescent halido(aryl) Pt(IV) complexes obtained via oxidative addition of iodobenzene or diaryliodonium salts to bis-cyclometalated Pt(II) precursors

López-López, J. C., Bautista, D.; González-Herrero, P. Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 13294–13305.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D1DT02349G









Visible light driven generation and alkyne insertion reactions of stable bis-cyclometalated Pt(IV) hydrides

Poveda, D.; Vivancos, Á.; Bautista, D.; González-Herrero, P. Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 12095-12102.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC04879H









Aromatic C-H Activation in the Triplet Excited State of Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Complexes Using Visible Light

Juliá, F.; González-Herrero, P. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 5276-5282.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b13311