Abstract
Known for their activities in catalysis and biology, organometallics complexes are an important part of current chemistry. However, their syntheses are still complicated from an experimental and environmental point of view (low yields, use of toxic solvents, …) and it becomes urgent to develop sustainable alternative synthetic methods. This thesis builds on mechanochemistry as an efficient alternative for the synthesis of organometallics complexes. Firstly, new silver(I) and ruthenium(II) complexes featuring NHC ligands were synthesized by mechanochemistry. These complexes were then evaluated in catalysis (hydrogen transfer reaction and ring-opening metathesis polymerization) and tested for their antitumoral activity. A second family of ruthenium(II) and iridium(III) complexes were synthesized by ball-milling, and tested in photoredox catalysis by mechanochemistry. During these different reactions, an improvement of experimental (shorter reaction time, use of optimal quantities of reactants) and environmental conditions (absence of toxic solvent) was observed, in addition to high yields.