Neodymium complexes bearing the sensitising bis(oxazolinylphenyl)amine (BOPA) ligands have been prepared, and analysed spectroscopically under both catalytic and pseudo-catalytic conditions with respect to the intramolecular hydroamination of an aminoalkene, providing a direct means of monitoring binding events and relative space around the metal centre.

The title compound, [Cr(C(12)H(27)O(3)SSi)(2)(C(6)H(15)N)(2)], is a mol-ecular chromium(II) thiol-ate that is coordinated by two dipropyl-amine ligands in a square-planar environment. The mol-ecule lies on an inversion site.

In the title compound, [Ni(C(15)H(12)N(4))(2)](ClO(4))(2), the Ni(II) atom lies on an inversion center and is octa-hedrally coordinated by the N atoms of two tridentate tri-2-pyridyl-amine ligands. The two perchlorate anions are disordered over two sites with a refined occupancy ratio of 0.528 (19):0.472 (19).

Highly unusual Na(+) complexes with neutral tri- and tetra-amines are isolable in good yield from the reaction of NaBAr(F) with the amine in organic media. Structural characterisation reveals primary Na-N bonding, including an unusual sandwich cation [Na(Me3tacn)2](+), derived from homoleptic N6-coordination via two Me3-tacn ligands, and the distorted 5-coordinate [Na(thf)(Me4cyclam)](+).

A series of nickel complexes containing N5-pentadentate ligands with different amine-to-pyridine ratios were studied for electrochemical H2 production in neutral water and the one with a diamine-tripyridine ligand displays a TON of up to 308,000 over 60 h electrolysis at -1.25 V vs. SHE, with a Faradaic efficiency of ∼91%.

In the title compound, [Ni(NO(3))(2)(C(24)H(20)N(2))(2)], the Ni(II) atom has a distorted pseudo-octa-hedral coordination geometry defined by two chelating nitrate groups and two pyridine N atoms of the monodentate N-(triphenyl-meth-yl)pyridin-2-amine ligands. Intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds help to establish the configuration.

a range of iron bidentae ligands containing the chelating moiety 3-hydroxypyridin-4-ones (hpos) have been synthesized via a single or a three-step synthetic pathway. in the single-step reaction, maltol was directly reacted by suitable primary amine and in the second synthetic method; benzylated maltol was reacted with related amines to give 1-substuted-2-methyl-3-benzyloxypyridin-4-one derivati...

The stereospecific hydrolysis of bulky aminophosphine boranes is reported for the first time. The resulting phosphinous acid boranes, upon activation, undergo stereospecific nucleophilic substitution reaction at the phosphorous center with amine nucleophiles. The combination of these two processes provides a novel access to bulky P*-ligands.

Calcium complexes bearing bis(oxazolinylphenyl)amine (BOPA) ligands have been prepared, and their redistribution chemistry studied. The complexes [Ca(R-BOPA){N(SiMe(3))(2)}(THF)] (R = (i)Pr 1a, Ph 1b and Bn 1c) are active in hydroamination catalysis and give the highest enantioselectivity reported for a calcium complex.

The structure of the title compound, [CrCl2(tn)2]2[Cr2O7] (tn = propane-1,3-di-amine; C3H10N2), has been determined from synchrotron data. The asymmetric unit contains one CrIII complex cation and half a [Cr2O7]2- anion. In the complex cation, the CrIII ion is coordinated by the four N atoms of two propane-1,3-di-amine (tn) ligands in the equatorial plane and by two Cl atoms in a trans configur...