This paper is focused on the manifestations of inter-community animosities and campanilistic rivalries in the treatise Faria - Città Vecchia e non Lesina. Pietro Hektorovich - Cittavecchiano e non Lesignano (1873) written by Hvar's scientist and historian Sime Ljubić (1822-1896). In his scientific argumentation we can find descriptions and comparisons that are more typical of creating stereotyp...

Citation: Sime-Ngando T, Lafferty KD and Biron DG (2015) Editorial: Roles and mechanisms of parasitism in aquatic microbial communities. Our research topic on the roles and mechanisms of parasitism in aquatic microbial communities should be of broad interest, given that there are probably more parasitic species than free-living ones (Windsor, 1998), a hypothesis increasingly supported by next g...

Polyisocyanide has attracted continuous attention because of its stable helical rod structure and wide application, it a unique π-conjugated system in which the carbon-nitrogen double bond each unit is twisted along polymeric backbone to form configuration. In this paper, series aryl isocyanides polymers are prepared using N-heterocyclic carbene-ligated scandium trialkyl complex 1 (IPr)Sc(CH 2 ...

Phosphasilenes, P=Si doubly bonded compounds, have received considerable attention due to their unique physical and chemical properties. We report on the synthesis and structure of a chlorophosphasilene coordinated by an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC), which has the potential of functionalization at the Si-Cl moiety. Treatment of a silylphosphine, ArPH-SiCl₂RSi (Ar = bulky aryl group, RSi = Si(Si...

Reactions of Cp*(2)Zn(2) with sterically demanding bis(iminodi(phenyl)phosphorano)methanes LH (LH = CH(2)(Ph(2)P=NR)(2) (R = Ph L(1)H, SiMe(3)L(2)H, 2,6-i-Pr(2)C(6)H(3) (Dipp) L(3)H) at ambient temperature occurred with elimination of Cp*H and subsequent formation of the homoleptic complex L(1)(2)Zn(2)1 and the heteroleptic complexes LZnZnCp* (L = L(2)2, L(3)3, L(1)4). 3 is the first structural...

SE Asian corporations – Golden Agri-Resources, Kuala Lumpur Kepong, Sime Darby, Olam International, Wilmar International, and Felda Global Ventures – are seeking to expand their palm oil business in West and Central Africa. Palm oil has been identified as a driver of both tropical deforestation and climate change, and this expansion also often has financial risks due to concerns about negligenc...

Four multitopic Schiff-base ligand precursors were synthesized via condensation of 4,4'-diol-3,3'-diformyl-1,1'-diphenyl or 1,3,5-tris(4-hydroxy-5-formylphenyl)benzene with 2,6-diisopropylaniline or 2,6-dimethylaniline. Amine elimination reactions of Ln[N(SiMe(3))(2)](3) (Ln = La, Nd, Sm or Y) with these multitopic ligand precursors gave ten heterogeneous rare-earth metal catalysts. These heter...

Facile methoxymethylation of N(2)-derived nitride NMo(N[(t)Bu]Ar)(3) provided the imido cation [MeOCH(2)NMo(N[(t)Bu]Ar)(3)](+) as its triflate salt in 88% yield. Treatment of the latter with LiN(SiMe(3))(2) provided blue methoxyketimide complex MeO(H)CNMo(N[(t)Bu]Ar)(3) in 95% yield. Conversion of the latter to the terminal cyanide complex NCMo(N[(t)Bu]Ar)(3), which was the subject of a single-...

The title mol-ecule, [ZrBr(2)(C(12)H(14)Si)], possesses a crystallographically imposed twofold rotational symmetry with the rotation axis passing through the Zr and Si atoms. The Zr(IV) centre is in a distorted tetra-hedral environment defined by two Cp rings of chelating organic ligands and two Br anions. Two five-membered rings form a dihedral angle of 59.7 (2)°. Unequal Zr-C bonds [2.471 (3)...