The nitrogen-substituted delaminated ITQ-2 zeolite was found to be a highly active and recyclable catalyst for the Knoevenagel condensation of bulky aromatic aldehydes with ethyl cyanoacetate which cannot take place over the base sites placed within the micropores of conventional zeolites due to spatial limitations.

A series of aluminium alkyl complexes {PhC(NR')(NR'')}AlR(2) (4a-n, R' = 2,6-(i)Pr(2)C(6)H(3), 2,6-Me(2)C(6)H(3); R'' = aryl groups with various ortho-, para- or meta-substituents, tert-butyl; R = methyl, ethyl) bearing non-symmetrically N-substituted benzamidinate ligands were synthesized via the reaction of trialkylaluminium and the corresponding benzamidine proligands. Complex 5 bearing symm...

A sustainable approach for the synthesis of substituted quinazolines by sequential acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling 2-aminobenzyl alcohol with alcohols using new Pd(II)-NNO pincer-type complexes as catalysts was reported. Air-stable palladium(II) general formula [Pd(L)(PPh3)] (where L = 4-substituted methyl-2-pyrrolyl benzhydrazone ligands) were synthesized, and their compositions recogniz...

Bulky and electron-rich N-phosphinomethyl-substituted N-heterocyclic carbene transition metal complexes have been prepared in a short and efficient protocol. The modular synthesis allows one to convert borane-protected phosphino-functionalized imidazolium salts into their corresponding metal chelate complexes in a one-pot procedure.

The coordination chemistry of copper has interest due to its use in biological systems as well as for photochemical and medicinal properties. We report the coordination chemistry of copper(i) complexes using terphenyl-based dithiocarboxylate, thiolate, and selenolate ligands. The number of metal ions of the resulting complexes can be tuned by varying the steric properties of the terphenyl ligan...

This account highlights the synthesis and applications of one of the very bulky NHC ligands, IPr* (1,3-bis(2,6-bis(diphenylmethyl)-4-methylphenyl)imidazo-2-ylidene). This ligand and some of its derivatives have been found very effective in several catalytic applications and have enabled the isolation of highly reactive organometallic complexes. More specifically, applications of this ligand in ...

This paper describes the synthesis of four chiral derivatives of the electronically highly conjugated tetra-2-pyridylpyrazine (TPPZ) bridging ligand, which are denoted (R)- and (S)-4,5- and 5,6-pineno-tetra-2-pyridylpyrazine (PTPPZ). Preparation of these ligands was undertaken through the use of commercially available, enantiomerically pure (1R)- and (1S)-alpha-pinene, which was functionalized ...

The discovery of highly active catalysts and the success of ionic liquid immobilized systems have accelerated attention to a new class of cationic metathesis catalysts. We herein report the facile syntheses of cationic ruthenium catalysts bearing bulky phosphine ligands. Simple ligand exchange using silver(I) salts of non-coordinating or weakly coordinating anions provided either PPh3 or chelat...

An efficient method for the cocyclotrimerization of bicyclic alkenes and benzynes catalyzed by palladium phosphine complexes to give the corresponding norbornane anellated 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene derivatives is described. Bicyclic alkenes 1a-i undergo [2 + 2 + 2] cocyclotrimerization with benzynes generated from precursors 2a-d [2-(trimethylsilyl)phenyl triflate (2a), 4,5-dimethyl-2-(trimethyl...