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Heteroleptic calcium β-diketiminate (BDI) complexes have been recognised as potent (pre)catalysts for a variety of transformations and have demonstrated valuable stoichiometric reactivity. Bulky ligands such as BDIs have been utilised to prevent unwanted dismutation and decomposition reactions of active hete

Alt: a person is holding an insulated container of liquid nitrogen. They pour the liquified gas over an open human hand in a lab setting. The Leidenfrost effect prevents any serious injury, as the liquid boils off before transferring much heat.

Amidinates ([R1NC(R2)NR3]−) are versatile and ubiquitous ligands in inorganic and main group chemistry, due to their anionic, bidentate nature and easy tunability. Herein we present the synthesis of 2...

Monomeric, dimeric and tetrameric aluminium(I) neutral complexes have all been previously reported, but a trimeric species has never previously been observed. We present the first trimeric neutral alu...

Low oxidation state aluminium complexes have gained wide recognition as discrete and versatile 2-electron reductants, but neutral trimeric structures remain elusive. Here the authors report the synthe...

Aluminium redox catalysis is achieved with a low-valent aluminium species, carbazolylaluminylene, enabling cyclotrimerization of alkynes and producing diverse benzene derivatives.

We show that subtly changing steric bulk about the Al─Zn bonds of heterobimetallic complexes can switch on reactivity with heteroallenes at the aluminium-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl moiety as well as...

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PhD Opportunity – Fully Funded Scholarship in Titanium Catalysis A fully funded PhD scholarship is available to join the Falconer Group at the University of Auckland. This project will focus on titan...

Heteroleptic calcium β-diketiminate (BDI) complexes have been recognised as potent (pre)catalysts for a variety of transformations and have demonstrated valuable stoichiometric reactivity. Bulky ligan...

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We present the synthesis and characterization of the parent isolable monomeric triplet titanocene complex, stabilized by the N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) IMe4. Investigated by SQUID magnetometry and…

Researchers claim to have validated a decades-old hypothesis formulated by Ronald Breslow by generating a carbene in an aqueous environment

The iminophosphonamide [R2P(NR′)2]− ligand is an analog of phosphate (R2PO2−), replacing its oxygen atoms with two amide groups. This review aims to provide the first comprehensive report on coordinat...