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Planar tetracoordinate carbons (ptC's) can be stabilized by four-membered ring perimeters composed of four bare transition metal atoms. DFT analyses of the MOs, electronic structures, energies, and magnetic properties of these CM4 species (where M represen ...
Reaction in water between rare earth ions (Ln ) Y, La-Tm, except Pm) and the sodium salt of terephthalic acid leads to a family of lanthanide-based coordination polymers of general formula [Ln2(C8H4O4)3(H2O)4]n with Ln ) La-Tm or Y. The isostructurality of ...
2-Methylprop-2-ene-, prop-2-ene-, 1-methylprop-2-ene-, and (E)-but-2-enesulfonyl chlorides have been used as electrophilic partners in desulfinylative palladium- catalyzed C–C coupling with Grignard reagents and sodium salts of dimethyl malonate and methyl ...
With the purpose of assessing the reactivity of chloride ions dissolved in ionic liquids (ILs), a relative scale for the solvation of chloride is given for a series of ILs based on the bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonimide ([Tf2N]) anion and differen ...
A combination of weak Lewis acid (LiCl) and weak Bronsted acid (hexafluoroisopropanol, HFIP) promotes efficiently the Friedel-Crafts reaction of electron-rich arom. compds. with Et glyoxylate. [on SciFinder (R)] ...
Non-activated alkyl halides are challenging substrates for cross-coupling reactions because they are reluctant to undergo oxidative addition and because metal alkyl intermediates are prone to β-H elimination. Despite recent progress, well-defined catalysts ...
Ruthenium(II)-arene diphosphine complexes are shown to be effective precursors for the catalytic hydrogenation of the C=C bond in an aqueous biphase using molecular hydrogen as the hydrogen source. A mechanistic study performed in water, utilizing high gas ...
With a view to develop drugs that could resist hydrolysis in aq. media,organometallic arene-capped ruthenium(II) 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphatricyclo[3.3.1.1]decane (RAPTA) complexes bearing chelating carboxylate ligands have been prepd. and studied. The new com ...
The ruthenium(II)-triphos acetato complex [RuCl(OAc)(k3-triphos)] (triphos = (PPh2CH2)3CMe) has been found to be an active catalyst precursor for the hydrogenation of 1-alkenes under relatively mild conditions (5-50 bar H2, 50 °C). In contrast to related t ...