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Chiral optical switches, which use light to control chirality in a reversible manner, offer unique properties and fascinating prospects in the areas of molecular switching and responsive systems, new photochromic materials and molecular data processing and ...
Hydrosilylation is an important chemical process for the synthesis of organosilanes and for the production of silicone polymers. The wide variety of catalysts developed for this reaction generally follow a Chalk-Harrod, or a sigma-bond metathesis mechanism ...
A series of functionalised imidazolium halide salts with substituents able to form pi-bonds have been prepared and characterised. Subsequent reaction of these imidazolium halides with Ag[C(CN)(3)] affords imidazolium-based ionic liquids (ILs), some of whic ...
Using hybrid density functional calculations, we investigate possible origins for the large variation of band offsets measured at Ge/GeO2 interfaces. We consider atomistic model interfaces with both amorphous and crystalline oxides, in which the bond densi ...
Covalent functionalizations represent a very promising avenue to engineer or manipulate carbon nanotubes. However, in metallic tubes the electrical conductance can drop by several orders of magnitude following functionalization, due to sp(3) rehybridizatio ...
The alcoholate-promoted dehydrohalogenation of 5-nonyl fluoride and cyclododecyl fluoride, typical straight-chain and, resp., medium-size cyclic substrates, leads to cis- and trans-alkenes in an approx. ratio of 1:3. With bulky bases such as lithium diisop ...
Transition-metal-catalyzed hydrosilylation of olefins is one of the most important methods for the preparation of organosilicon compounds, which have broad applications in both synthetic and material chemistry. For decades, precious metals, principally pla ...
The first efficient and non-precious nanoparticle catalyst for alkene hydrosilylation with commercially relevant tertiary silanes has been developed. The nickel nanoparticle catalyst was prepared in situ from a simple nickel alkoxide precatalyst Ni((OBu)-B ...