Executive Summary : | Organic chemistry is the pivotal science responsible for the advancements in the fields of health, agriculture, energy and smart materials. The progress in this field has given, longer and healthier life, in addition to comfort and luxury to human beings. However, it has inadvertently played a major role in environmental pollution with large amounts of waste generation. In the rush to support industrial revolution, the chemistry developed around carbon has not focused on mild, atom economic and environmentally benign reactions/procedures. The present situation has again highlighted the need to take a serious look at the chemistry and chemical processes to reduce the waste generation and protect the environment to align with the Global Sustainability Goals. The main objective of the modern chemists is to find out a solution for poorly sustainable important chemical processes. In this context, the new methods those involve the readily available, inexpensive and non-toxic catalytic systems are the basis to replace the chemical processes that are poorly sustainable. The exceptional properties such as, stability in air, solubility in common organic solvents and inexpensive nature etc. have made Ferrocene(Fc) an ideal molecule in organometallic chemistry. There are numerous reports on using ferrocene and its derivatives as ligands, biosensors, optical materials and antiturmor agents etc. However, using ferrocene or its derivatives as catalysts for the organic transformations has very limited number of reports so far. This proposal aims to develop highly atom economical and environmentally benign chemical transformations using ferrocene and its derivatives. We believe that the successful execution of this proposal would reveal new catalytic approaches in synthetic organic chemistry which have significance in terms of industry as well as academia. |