Context & Scale This review aims to bridge the fields of inorganic molecular chemistry, electrocatalysis, lithium-ion batteries, and chemical physics of oxides by introducing a unifying concept linking the electronic structures and electrochemical properties of transition metal oxides and complexes. In this work, by reviewing broad literature on the redox behavior of a number of Ni, Co, Fe, and...

Schiff bases and their metal complexes are very important in medicinal and pharmaceutical fields because of their wide spectrum of biological activities. Transition metal complexes derived from the Schiff base ligands with biological activity have been widely studied. A series of Ni (II) complexes were prepared by the reaction of salicyldimine with Nickel Oxide at room temperature. The chemical...

2-Phenyl-N,N'-bis(pyridin-4-ylcarbonyl)butanediamide ligand with a series of transition metal complexes has been synthesized via two routes: microwave irradiation and conventional heating method. Microwave irritation method happened to be the efficient and versatile route for the synthesis of these metal complexes. These complexes were found to have the general composition M(L)Cl2/M(L)(CH3COO)2...

Invited for this month's cover is the group of Prof. F. Matthias Bickelhaupt. The cover picture illustrates the authors' quantum chemical finding that π electrons can significantly bend otherwise linear d(10)-ML2 complexes through backbonding. For more details, see the Full Paper on p. 106 ff.

Several ferrocenylalkynes have been prepared and their reaction with dicobalt octacarbonyl led to the formation of [Co2(CO)6(μ-η 2 : η-ethynylferrocene)] 1, [Co2(CO)6(μ-η 2 : η-1,4-bis(ferrocenyl)butadiyne)] 2, [(Co2(CO)6)2(μ-η : η,μ-η : η-1,4-bis(ferrocenyl)butadiyne)] 3, [Co2(CO)6(μ-η 2 : η-1-ferrocenylethynyl-2-hydro-1,2-dihydro[60]fullerene)] 4, [Co2(CO)6(μ-η 2 : η-1,1’-bis(phenylethynyl)fe...

Ionic transition metal complexes (iTMCs) are receiving increased attention as materials capable of yielding efficient electroluminescent devices with air-stable electrodes. The operational characteristics of these devices are dominated by the presence of mobile ions that redistribute under an applied bias and assist in electronic charge injection. This article reviews recent efforts in the fiel...

ABSTRACT A series of dioxygen complexes of copper, iron, and manganese have been synthesized using bulky tripodal nitrogen ligands, hydrotris(3,5-dialkyl1-pyrazolyl)borate, as models for the active sites in the metalloproteins. A binuclear copper peroxo complex having p-q2:$ coordination mode serves as an accurate model of the active site of oxy-hemocyanin. The reactivities of the complex and r...

The data are presented for catalytic H-D exchange of alkanes with protic solvents and some other reactions of alkanes in the presence of transition metal complexes, particularly Pt(II). In Pt(II) chloride solutions the activity of Pt-containing species towards alkanes is in the order S2PtC12> SPtC13> PtC14 (S—solvent). Ligands with properties of soft bases (CN, CNS, PPh etc.) decrease the rate ...

The group 6 metal mono-, bis- and tris-ferrocenylphosphine complexes [M(CO)5(PH2Fc)] (1a, M = Cr; 1b, M = Mo; 1c, M = W), cis-[M(CO)4(PH2Fc)2] (2a, M = Cr; 2b, M = Mo; 2c, M = W) and fac-[M(CO)3(PH2Fc)3] (3a, M = Cr; 3b, M = Mo; 3c, M = W) [Fc = Fe(η(5)-C5H4)(η(5)-C5H5)] were prepared and fully characterised. IR and NMR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis indicate that Fc...