Les ions métalliques (Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn, Ni, Co, Mo…) jouent un rôle vital dans un grand nombre de processus biologiques. Leur carence et leur excès entraînent des défauts de croissance voire la mort. Pour survivre et croître, certaines bactéries ont développé des stratégies pour acquérir les métaux dans leur environnement basées sur la synthèse de ligands complexant les métaux. Les plantes, elles, stockent les métaux et les transportent entre les tissus sous des formes chimiques particulières et un rôle grandissant pour les petits complexes métalliques semble se révéler. La spéciation des métaux gouvernerait donc leur biodisponibilité pour les consommateurs en ce qui concerne les plantes comestibles. Cette thèse a pour but le développement de méthodes analytiques pour l’identification et la quantification des formes chimiques des métaux chez les bactéries et les plantes.Les techniques de séparation chromatographique, comme la chromatographie d’exclusion stérique (SEC) et la chromatographie d’interaction hydrophile (HILIC), furent couplées à la spectrométrie de masse (MS) avec une ionisation préalable par plasma induit (ICP MS) ou par électrospray pour une détection élémentaire et moléculaire respectivement. La méthodologie analytique développée ici, qui est basée sur l’utilisation de l’HILIC avec détection double par ICP MS et électrospray MS, s’est avérée cruciale pour la découverte et la caractérisation de deux nouveaux métallophores, la staphylopine chez Staphylococcus aureus et la pseudopaline chez Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Ces métallophores sont synthétisés et exportés par les bactéries et servent pour l’acquisition des métaux de transition divalents dans les milieux très pauvres en métaux grâce à leur pouvoir complexant.Des techniques dédiées de préparation d’échantillons, incluant le fractionnement des extraits solubles à l’eau, furent mises en place pour l’analyse du fer dans le maïs. Les approches instrumentales développées, notamment après le fractionnement du fer l’échantillon, permirent l’identification par spectrométrie de masse de complexes du fer avec le citrate, le muginéate et le phytate dans les grains de maïs. Il existe aussi une différence significative dans les concentrations de certaines polyamines entre certaines variétés de graines contenant du fer faiblement biodisponible et celles contenant du fer fortement biodisponible. La plus grande abondance de complexe fer-muginéate dans les extraits gastro-intestinaux des variétés à fer fortement biodisponible semblerait indiqué un rôle important pour ce complexe dans la biodisponibilité du fer. Finalement, des ratios molaires plus faibles entre le phytate extrait et le fer qui lui est associé sembleraient aussi être un des facteurs lié à une plus grande biodisponibilité du fer. / Metal (Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn, Ni, Co, Mo…) ions play a vital role in a large number of biological processes. Both their deficiency and excess will lead to severe growth impairment or death. In order to survive and to grow, bacteria developed strategies to acquire metals from the environment based on the synthesis of metal complexing ligands. Plants store metals and transport them between tissues in particular chemical forms and a rising role for small metal complexes seems to be revealed. Therefore their speciation governs the bioavailability of the metals to consumers in the case of edible plants. This thesis aims at the development of analytical methods for the identification and quantification of metal chemical forms in bacteria and in plants.Chromatographic separation techniques, such as size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) were coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) using ionization in an inductively coupled plasma (ICP MS) or electrospray for elemental and molecular detection, respectively. The developed analytical methodology based on HILIC with dual ICP MS and electrospray MS detection turned out to be crucial for the discovery and characterization of two novels metallophores, staphylopine in Staphylococcus aureus and pseudopaline in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. These metallophores are synthesized and exported by the bacteria and serve for the uptake of divalent transition metal in metal scarce conditions by means of chelation. Dedicated samples preparation techniques, including fractionation of water soluble extracts, were developed for iron analyses in maize. The developed instrumental approaches following the iron fractionation methods allowed the identification by mass spectrometry of citrate, mugineate and phytate complexes with iron in maize kernels. There was also a significant difference in some polyamine concentrations observed between some kernels with low and high bioavailable iron. The higher abundance of the iron-mugineate complex in the gastrointestinal extract in high bioavailable maize variety possibly indicates that iron-mugineate would have an important role in iron biodisponibility. Finally, lower molar ratios between extracted phytate and iron associated to it would seem to be also a key aspect for higher iron bioavailability.

A wide variety of computational methods are available for exploring molecular structures and reactivity in chemistry. These range from molecular mechanics calculations allowing determination of the geometry of a molecule to ab initio calculations for the electronic structure of compounds. Electronic structure calculations can be carried out with sufficient rigor so that the results are now comparable with experimental results in many cases. Density Functional Theory (DFT) with hybrid functional like B3LYP, for example, is very popular especially for studies on organometallic molecules and their reactions. Traditional ab initio approaches including Hartree-Fock (HF) and post-HF methods that include configuration interaction, such as MP2 and MP4 continue to be used, often for comparison with DFT based methods. Semi-empirical methods now appear to have only limited use except in large systems, in combination with molecular mechanics (MM) calculations. A relatively new use of MM for large systems is in hybrid calculations where the reactive center of the system is treated at a higher level leaving the remainder to be treated at the MM level. These hybrid QM/MM (quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics) calculations, such as ONIOM (our own n-layered integrated molecular orbital and molecular mechanics developed by Morokuma and co-workers) enable one to treat the steric bulk of the big system effectively and computationally efficiently. They appear to be very standard methods particularly in studies relating to reactions of organometallic systems and structures of large biomolecules. A short description of these methods is given below. • ab initio: a wide variety of programs that calculate the electronic structure of molecules using the Schrödinger equation, the values of the fundamental constants and the atomic numbers of the atoms present (Atkins, 1991). Molecular structures, optimized as a function of the electronic structure, are valuable starting points for many studies. • Density Functional Theory (DFT): a theoretical model in which the energy of an N-electron system is described as a functional of the density. • Semi-empirical techniques use approximations to evaluate the overlap, repulsion and exchange integrals in solving the Schrodinger equation. Often, these integrals are not evaluated but estimated to reproduce experimental data. • Molecular mechanics uses classical physics to explain and interpret the behavior of atoms and molecules. • Molecular dynamics (MD): Newton’s laws of motion are used to examine the time-dependent behavior of systems, including vibrations and Brownian motion, using a classical mechanical description. When combined with DFT, it leads to the Car-Parrinello method. • QM/MM method: It is a molecular simulation method that combines the strength of both QM (accuracy) and MM (speed) calculations, thus resulting in an extremely powerful tool for the study of bigger systems like chemical process in solution, interaction of drugs with biomolecules etc. Several commercial and educational packages in computational chemistry include a suite of programs that enable study of organic and organometallic molecules in an integrated fashion. While no list can be comprehensive, those that are more popular and useful are listed in several websites URL (http://www.ccl.net/chemistry/links/software/index.shtml). In the early days of computational chemistry up to 1980's, detailed studies were only carried out on small organic compounds or empirical studies were carried out on transition metal containing organometallics. However, in recent times, significant advancements in theoretical methods and computer capability (hardware and software), have led to the acceleration of theoretical and computational studies of complex systems including compounds containing transition metal elements. Computational and theoretical studies of organometallic complexes and their reactions have gained immense popularity and the numbers of papers including theoretical studies are dramatically increasing. One reason for this popularity is that organometallic complexes exhibit unusual geometries, bonding, and reactivity which often do not fall into the domain of inorganic or organic chemistry making them difficult to understand. Catalysis is one of the most extensively studied areas in organometallic chemistry where computational studies already make a real and valuable contribution to the analysis and interpretation of experimental data. However, what might be called ‘in silico’ catalyst screening and design, has rarely been achieved. One might say that successful prediction of catalyst performance is still a dream. A recent review summarizes the current state of the art in computational chemistry as applied to organometallic catalysis, covering both calculated ligand property descriptors and mechanistic studies of catalytic cycles.1 Some of the widely studied catalytic reactions of current interest, that provide huge scope for computational and theoretical analysis, are allylic alkylation (Pd),2 hydrogenation (Rh),3 hydroformylation (Rh),4 alkene metathesis (Ru),5 cross-coupling (Pd),6 C–H activation (Pd)7 and amination (Pd).8 There are many more examples where computational studies appear to be very useful for analysis of crystal structures and NMR structures or prediction of structures where no experimental data are available for complicated organometallic systems. There are a number of studies on drug-DNA/nucleobases interactions using QM/MM-MD simulations where people have investigated the interactions of metal complexes with double stranded (ds) DNA/nucleobases and the effects of their binding on the local and the global structure of DNA. QM/MM methods are also very helpful for studying catalytic reactions, interpretation of structure of large systems (proteins) and understanding reactions in biological systems. Scope of the Thesis In this thesis an attempt is made to use computational chemistry to understand organometallic reactions that are of significance from biological and synthetic view points, such as the action of organometallic complexes on DNA and the mechanism of some catalytic reactions. In many of these cases, the key step involved a nucleophillic attack. Specifically four such problems have been addressed where experimental results are not sufficient to provide a complete mechanistic picture of the reaction. Hence, the thesis contains four chapters with each having an independent brief introduction. The first chapter deals with the substitution reaction where water replaces chloride ion in the piano stool type ruthenium (II)-arene complexes and subsequently coordination of Ru to guanine/adenine occurs in these complexes. These steps have been studied using density functional theory at the B3LYP level. The complexes have promising anticancer activity. These nucleophilic substitution reactions are very important for activating these complexes so that they can interact with DNA, because DNA is thought to be primary target for their anticancer activity. In this chapter, both associative and dissociative pathways have been explored in the gas phase, as well as in the presence of other solvents for substitution reactions. Among the associative paths, a variety of possibilities can exist for the hydrolysis based on the direction of the nucleophilic attack by a water molecule. The proposed theoretical model for hydrolysis provides new insight into the hydrolysis process in half sandwich ruthenium complexes. The second chapter deals with the QM/MM calculations to investigate the structural and electronic properties of drug-DNA interactions, where DNA acts as nucleophile towards the metal complex. A series of piano-stool type ruthenium (II)-arene complexes were selected for the present study. These interactions were analyzed using the two layer ONIOM method. The importance of this study lies in the detailed understanding of factors that govern DNA binding and reactivity which is clearly of great pharmacological interest, as it may provide the basis for designing better anticancer agents. Experimental results that explore the structural feature of DNA-metal complexes at a molecular level are very limited. Thus theoretical calculations of molecular and electronic structure represent a valuable complement to experiments. They provide an alternative way to explore structure-activity relationships, and the drug binding mechanism, in detail. The third chapter reports the use of QM/MM methods in understanding the reaction mechanism and enantioselectivity in an organic transformation. In this section, a computational investigation of the enantioselectivity observed in the allylation of cinnamaldehyde, catalyzed by chiral platinum phosphinite complexes, have been carried out. The catalysts are ascorbic acid based phosphinite complexes where enantioselectivity depends on the substitution of benzyl groups on the chiral phosphinite ligands. From the experiment, it is not clear how the effect of an ancillary ligand can make such a big impact on enantioselectivity. To find out the origin of stereoselectivity, a computational study was taken up. A reaction mechanism was established where the nucleophilic attack determines the rate of the reaction and the corresponding enantioselectivity. A screening process has been utilized to select relevant reactant adducts and corresponding transition states from approximately 200 theoretically possible conformers using MM calculations. Finally with the help of QM/MM calculations, the numbers of contributions of these conformers were estimated. This approach correctly predicts the enantioselectivity in these reactions catalyzed by these complexes especially when the experimental enantioselectivity is very high. The fourth chapter of the thesis discusses the use of computational techniques to study the nucleophilic attack of an imine on a Ti-olefin complex. The reaction of Grignard reagents with imines mediated by stoichiometric amounts of titanium isopropoxide has been reported recently. On the basis of deuterium labeling experiments, nucleophilic attack of an imine on a Ti-olefin complex was believed to be a key step. Effect of deuterium labeling on the ratio of products formed is not easy to understand from experiments. Hence a computational study was performed using the DFT method to establish the mechanism of substitution and to understand the role of deuterium labeling. The thesis also includes a study of Cu-Cu interactions using Atoms in Molecules (AIM) theory in copper complexes with reasonably short Cu-Cu distances. The concept of bond critical points (BCP) from AIM analysis is employed to investigate the CuI-CuI bonding interactions in ligand unsupported copper complexes where the CuI-CuI contacts are shorter than the sum of their van der Waals radii. There is extensive debate about the nature of interactions between d10 "closed shell" systems in copper (CuI) complexes, which is known as cuprophilicity. In this study, an attempt has been made to compute the electron density between the two CuI centers and examine the nature of this “interaction”. As this falls outside the main theme of nucleophilic interactions in metal complexes, it has been relegated to an appendix.

This thesis begins with a brief overview of current strategies used in the synthesis of side-chain functionalizad polymers and materials. The discussion then focuses more explicitly on transition metal-based motifs and methodologies that are employed in polymer functionalization and continues with a more detailed overview of this field. The primary hypothesis that is addressed herein is that combining the versatility and strength of metal-ligand interactions with the efficiency and functional group tolerance of ROMP comprises a useful method of generating a variety of functionalized polymers and materials via side-chain metal coordination. Thus, the goal is to test this hypothesis by synthesizing functionalized polymers with a range of useful properties to demonstrate the relevance and importance of this methodology, by employing several different strategies to show the synthetic ease by which the materials can be realized. The strategies and methods discussed in the synthesis of side-chain functionalized polymers are divided into three subgroups: (1) pre-polymerization functionalization, in which all of the modifications take place on the monomer with polymerization as the last step, (2) post-polymerization functionalization, in which the polymer itself is subsequently modified, and (3) combinations of the first two strategies. It is shown that useful functional polymers and materials can be synthesized by any of the above strategies, and representative examples of each are given in both the introduction and in the body of work presented. Modes of functionalization are all based on transition metal coordination, and polymerizations are primarily carried out via ROMP. Metal coordination is shown to be a useful technique for functionalizing polymers, to creating supported emissive complexes, to modulating solution viscosity. Finally, conclusions are drawn regarding the various strategies presented herein, and potential future directions are discussed.

From a theoretical standpoint, the accurate description of potential energy surfaces for bond breaking and the equilibrium structures of metal-ligand catalysts are distinctly similar problems. Near degeneracies of the bonding and anti-bonding orbitals for the case of bond breaking and of the partially-filled d-orbitals for the case of metal-ligand catalyst systems lead to strong non-dynamical correlation effects. Standard methods of electronic structure theory, as a consequence of the single-reference approximation, are incapable of accurately describing the electronic structure of these seemingly different theoretical problems. The work within highlights the application of multi-reference methods, methods capable of accurately treating these near-degeneracies, for describing the bond-breaking potentials in several small molecular systems and the equilibrium structures of metal-salen catalysts. The central theme of this work is the ability of small, compact reference functions for accurately describing the strong non-dynamical correlation effects in these systems.

There is considerable current interest in the design and synthesis of new phosphorus ligands and their transition metal complexes in view of their potential applications in homogeneous catalysis. The present study is concerned with the synthesis of new chiral and achiral “ diphosphazanes”, which constitute a class of versatile short-bite bidentate phosphine ligands, and studying their reactivity towards late transition metals (Ag, Pd and Ru). Symmetrical diphosphazane ligands, MeN{P(OR)2}2 (R = (1R, 2S, 5R)-menthyl) and MeN{P(SR)2}2, (R = C6H5) and unsymmetrical diphosphazane ligands, Ph2PN(Pri)PPhY, (Y =OC6H3Me2-2,6 or NMePh) have been synthesized and structurally characterized. The reactivity of these ligands towards the transition metal precursors viz., [PdCl2(COD)] and [CpRu(PPh3)2Cl] has been investigated. The reaction of [Ru(bipy)2Cl2] with the diphosphazane, PriN(PPh2)2 in the presence of AgOTf to synthesize [Ru(bipy)2{PriN(PPh2)2}2]OTf led to an unexpected entry into the Ag(I) chemistry of this ligand. By optimizing the reaction conditions, several mononuclear, dinuclear and trinuclear complexes such as [Ag(K2-PriN(PPh2)2)2]X, [Ag(µ-PriN(PPh2)2)X]2 and [Ag3(µ-(Cl)2(µ-PriN(PPh2)2)3]X (X = NO3, OTf or PF6) have been synthesized. A polymeric complex, [Ag2(µ-PriN(PPh2)2)( µ-NO3)2]n in which the ligand adopts a unique ‘Cs’ geometry has also beenstructurally characterized. This polymeric complex is used to synthesize a helical polymer,[Ag2{µ-PriN(PPh2)2}(DABCO)(NO3)2]n and π- π stacked supramolecular assemblies such as [Ag2(NO3)2(µ-Ph2PN(Pri)PPh2)(2,2'-bipy)2] and [Ag2{µ-PriN(PPh2)2}(1,10-phen)2](NO3)2]. The reaction of a sterically bulky diphosphazane ligand, EtN{P(OC6H3(Pri)2-2,6)2}2 (L) with[(η3-1-R,R’-C3H3)Pd(µ-Cl)]2 in the presence of NH4PF6 gives the cationic complex, [(η 3-1-R,R’-C3H3)Pd(L)]PF6 (R = H; R’= H or Me) as the sole product. In the absence of NH4PF6, theinitially formed cationic complex, [(η 3-C3H5)Pd(L)]PF6 is transformed into a mixture of chlorobridged complexes over a period of 96 h. An octa-palladium complex [(η3-C3H5)(2-Cl- η3-C3H4)Pd4(µ-Cl)4(µ-L)]2 is formed as a result of nucleophilic substitution by a chloride ligand at the central allyl carbon atom. The reaction of L with [(η3-C3H5)Pd(µ-Cl)]2 in the presence of K2CO3 yields a dinuclear complex, [(η3-C3H5)Pd2(µ-L)Cl] containing a coordinatively unsaturated T-shaped palladium center. This complex exhibits high catalytic activity and large“turn-over numbers” in the catalytic hydrophenylation of norbornene. Reactions of diphosphazanes with cyclometalated palladium complexes of the general formula [Pd( k2-(C,N)-Me2NCHMe(C6H4))(solvent)2]PF6 derived from a chiral amine, (S)-N,N-dimethyl-1-phenethylamine give chelate complexes of the type [Pd{ k2-(C,N)-Me2NCHMe(C6H4)}(LL)] PF6, (L-L = diphosphazane). Chiral racemic diphosphazanes give a mixture of diastereomeric(S,R and S,S) complexes which could not be separated. These cyclometalated complexes show moderate catalytic activity in C−C bond forming reactions (hydrophenylation /Suzuki coupling).

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This thesis is comprised of two parts. The first part describes the synthesis of cyclopentadienyltungsten complexes containing a pendant alkyne group (I), and the subsequent photo-induced intramolecular coordination of the alkyne, forming complexes such as II. Compounds containing intramolecularly coordinated alkynes are rare, and this is the first example using cyclopentadiene as the core ligand. The second part describes the synthesis and structural characterisation of a number of novel metal complexes containing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands, some containing particular functionality for taylored applications. New methods were used to form complexes of rhodium, iridium, silver and gold (eg. III, IV). Structural and spectroscopic properties of the complexes were correlated with electronic characteristics of the ancillary ligands. A number of rhodium and iridium complexes (eg. IV) derived from imidazolium-linked cyclophanes were synthesised and structurally characterised. Complexes of N-heterocyclic carbenes with pendant ionic groups were synthesised, and a preliminary examination of their catalytic activity in water was performed. N-Heterocyclic carbenes complexes containing an electron withdrawing nitro group were synthesised and the effect of the nitro group on metal-ligand bonding was examined.

La biodisponibilité d'un métal pour un organisme donné correspond à la fraction de ce métal qui est potentiellement bioadsorbable et/ou biointernalisable. Elle dépend de la composition physicochimique du milieu, de la nature des surfaces biologiques considérées et elle est modulée par la réponse cellulaire des organismes. Dans un contexte environnemental, l’analyse des processus contrôlant la bioassimilation des métaux est essentielle pour une prédiction fiable de leur biodisponibilité et toxicité. Dans ce manuscrit sont détaillés des développements théoriques et expérimentaux visant à comprendre la dynamique de partition de contaminants métalliques aux interfaces microbiennes et les déterminants de leur biodisponibilité selon une approche qui dépasse les cadres thermodynamiques classiques (modèle BLM). Après une partie introductive et une revue de l'état de l'art, le troisième chapitre de cette thèse est dédié à l'élaboration d'un formalisme pour l'évaluation quantitative de la bio-partition hors-équilibre de métaux traces aux interfaces biologiques. Ce modèle théorique est basé sur les expressions des flux de contaminants depuis la solution extracellulaire vers la surface biologique par diffusion/conduction, des flux d'internalisation et excrétion à travers la membrane, et il tient compte de la cinétique de déplétion des métaux en solution. Le formalisme intègre par ailleurs les processus de complexation intracellulaire des métaux sur la base d'un mécanisme d'Eigen généralisé. Dans le quatrième chapitre, des souches d'Escherichia coli ont été génétiquement modifiées pour (i) limiter leurs capacités d'excrétion des métaux et (ii) sur-exprimer des protéines intracellulaires ayant une forte affinité pour ces métaux. Des données expérimentales issues de suivis cinétiques de déplétion de Cd(II) réalisées à différentes fractions volumiques en bactéries ont permis de conforter avec succès les bases de la théorie élaborée dans cette thèse pour la partition de métaux à des biointerfaces molles chargées. Un dernier chapitre est consacré à l’évaluation quantitative de la réponse de biosenseurs luminescents en présence de métaux. Ce formalisme décrit la façon avec laquelle la dérivée temporelle des biosignaux dépend de la dynamique d’internalisation du métal, de la cinétique de formation de complexes intracellulaires régulateurs des processus de transcription et de leurs stabilités, et des processus de bio-sorption passive. Une confrontation avec des données expérimentales issues de biosenseurs sensibles au cadmium a permis de mettre en évidence l’inapplicabilité des modèles d’équilibre de biodistribution des métaux, et de prédire la réponse des biosenseurs à des variations de la salinité du milieu, de la concentration cellulaire et de la concentration bulk de métaux / Bioavailability of metal ions toward living organisms refers to the metal fraction they potentially adsorb and/or internalize. It is governed by the physicochemical medium composition, the nature of the biological surface considered and it is further mediated by the cellular response of the organisms. Within an environmental context, a fine understanding of the processes controlling metal biouptake is mandatory to predict bioavailability and toxicity of metallic contaminants. Here are detailed theoretical and experimental developments to broaden our knowledge on dynamic partitioning of metallic contaminants at microbial interfaces beyond the standard thermodynamic representation (BLM model). After an introduction and a state of the art section, the third chapter is devoted to the elaboration of a rationale for the evaluation of the processes governing metal biouptake under relevant out-of-equilibrium conditions. The formalism expresses the fluxes of contaminants from bulk medium to the biosurface via conductive diffusion, the biouptake and excretion fluxes with account of metal depletion kinetics in the extracellular medium. It also includes chemodynamics of intracellular metal complexation as described by a generalized Eigen scheme. In the fourth chapter, strains of \textit{Escherichia coli} were genetically modified to limit metal excretion ability and overexpress strong intracellular proteinaceous chelators. Quantitative interpretation of metal depletion kinetic data confort the bases of the theory developed in this PhD work on metal partitioning at soft charged biointerfaces. The final chapter deals with a development of a theoretical framework for understanding -on a mechanistic level- the response of metal-sensitive whole-cell bioreporters. The theory explicitly deciphers how the time derivative of bioreporters signal intensity is governed by the dynamics of metal biouptake, by the formation kinetics and stability of the intracellular complexes acting as transcriptional regulators, and by passive biosorption. The model predictions are successfully collated with cadmium detection data collected with genetically modified Escherichia coli luminescent bioreporters that exhibit various lipopolysaccharidic surface structures. The analysis dismisses the applicability of thermodynamic metal biopartitioning models and it clearly defines the physicochemical medium composition in line with optimum biosensing of the bioavailable metal fraction

This Thesis aimed the synthesis of new metal complexes with triazenido ligands and triazenes chains directly linked to ferrocene fragment by a new synthesis methodology. The complex bis-[1,3-bis(2-biphenyl)triazenido-κN1]mercury(II) was synthesized, melting point 222–224 °C and yield 82 %, characterized by IR, UV-Vis, 1H e 13C RMN, elemental analysis, mass spectrometry by ESI(+)TOF, single crystal x-ray diffraction. The triazenes 1,1’-bis[1-phenyl-3(H)triazene]ferrocene (Compound 1) and 1,1’-bis(benzo-1,2,3-triazol-1-phenyltriazene)ferrocene (Compound 6) were synthesized by ferrocene metalation with BuLi and substitution by correspondent azide, with yields higher than 70 %, melting points 151 and 160 °C, respectively, were characterized by UV-Vis (Compound 1), 1H and 13C NMR, elemental analysis, IE-MS (Compound 1) ESI(+)TOF (Compound 6), single crystal x-ray diffraction (Compoound 1), powder x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and thermogravimetric analysis. Starting from Compound 1 the following heterobimetallic complexes were sinthesized: {[Fe(C5H4NNNH5C6)]2Ni2} (Compound 2), {[Fe(C5H4NNN(H)H5C6)]2Cl2Cu2} (Compound 3 with protonated triazene), {[Fe(C5H4NNNH5C6)]2[Cu(PPh3)2]2} (Compound 4), {[Fe(C5H4NNN(H)H5C6)]2Cu4} (Compound 5). Compounds 6 and 7 didn’t yields suitable single crystals for X-ray diffraction, but based on the MS-ESI(+)TOF and 1H NMR analysis the respective structures based on 1,1’-bis[1-phenyl-3(H)triazene]ferrocene could be predicted. The new triazenes synthesis by methodology under study showed good yields and can be done in two steps. The compounds purification is simple by only extraction with organic solvent and water precipitation followed by filtration enabling the development of further new triazenes including other metallocenes and other azides. / O objetivo desta tese foi a síntese de novos complexos metálicos envolvendo ligantes triazenidos e triazenos diretamente ligados ao ferroceno. Foi sintetizado o complexo bis-[1,3-bis(2-bifenil)triazenido-κN1]mercúrio(II) com ponto de fusão 222–224 °C e rendimento de 82 %, caracterizado por infravermelho, UV-Vis, 1H e 13C RMN, análise elementar, espectroscopia de massas por ESI(+)TOF, difração de raios X em monocristal. Os triazenos 1,1’-bis[1-fenil-3(H)triazeno]ferroceno (Composto 1) e 1,1’-bis(benzo-1,2,3-triazol-1-feniltriazeno)ferroceno (Composto 6) foram sintetizados por metalação via BuLi, seguida da substituição pela azida correspondente com rendimentos superiores a 70 %, com pontos de fusão de 151 e 160 °C, respectivamente, foram caracterizados por UV-Vis (Composto 1), 1H e 13C RMN, análise elementar, espectroscopia de massas por IE (Composto 1) ESI(+)TOF (Composto 6), difração de raios X em monocristal (Composto 1), difração de raio X de pó, microscopia eletrônica de varredura e análise termogravimétrica. A partir do Composto 1 foram sintetizados os complexos multinucleares: {[Fe(C5H4NNNH5C6)]2Ni2} (Composto 2), {[Fe(C5H4NNN(H)H5C6)]2Cl2Cu2} (Composto 3 com triazeno protonado), {[Fe(C5H4NNNH5C6)]2[Cu(PPh3)2]2} (Composto 4), {[Fe(C5H4NNN(H)H5C6)]2Cu4} (Composto 5). O Composto 6 e o Composto 7 não resultaram em cristais adequados para medida, com as análises por EM-ESI(+)TOF e 1H RMN pode-se fazer uma predição da estrutura baseada nas estruturas com o 1,1’-bis[1-fenil-3(H)triazeno]ferroceno. A síntese de novos triazenos pela metodologia estudada possui bom rendimento e é realizada em apenas duas etapas, a purificação dos triazenos é simples, envolvendo apenas a extração com solvente orgânico e a precipitação em água seguida de filtração possibilitando o desenvolvimento de novos triazenos com outros metalocenos e outras azidas.