Dedicated to Professor Hubert Schmidbaur, the grand master of gold chemistry, on the occasion of his 75th birthday The chemistry of gold(I) with the ligand binap = 2,2′-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1′ -binaphthyl is reported. Reaction of [Au2Cl2(μ-binap)] with silver trifluoroacetate gave the corresponding complex [Au2(O2CCF3)2(μ-binap)], and crystallization in the presence of excess silver trifluo...

Boron tris(trifluoroacetate) is identified as the first effective catalyst for the homoallyl- and homocrotylboration of aldehydes by cyclopropylcarbinylboronates. NMR spectroscopic studies and theoretical calculations of key intermediates and transition states both suggest that a ligand-exchange mechanism, akin to our previously reported PhBCl2-promoted homoallylations, is operative. Our experi...

Treatment of 1-(n-butyl)-3-N-(2-Ar)acetamido-1, 3-imidazolium chloride (Ar=furylmethyl,phenylmethyl) with excess K2CO3 and [PdCl2(L−L)] (L−L=2 PPh3, dppf) afforded orange compounds composition [(1-(n-butyl)-3-N-(2-Ar)acetamido-1,3-imidazol-2-ylidene)]2Pd (Ar=furylmethyl; phenylmethyl). These complexes were characterized by NMR (1H 13C{1H} NMR), IR micro-analysis data. Subsequently, the catalyti...

The volume change and sorption of CO2 of ionic liquids(ILs) were measured in a high pressure view cell under supercritical fluid condition. Imidazolium-based ILs such as 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([bmim][PF6]), 1-butyl-3-methyl-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([bmim][BF4]), and 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([omim][BF ]) were employed in this research. The ef...

We present a systematic investigation of the effect of solvent hydrophobicity (alkyl chain length) on the gelation kinetics and the phase states of the polypeptide gelatin in imidazolium based ionic liquid (IL) solutions. We have observed that IL concentration and hydrophobicity had dramatic influences on the thermal and viscoelastic properties of gelatin ionogels. Gelation concentration cg was...

The title compound, C(14)H(19)N(2) (+)·BF(4) (-), was obtained by reaction of 1-ethyl-3-(2,4,6-trimethyl-phen-yl)imidazolium tetra-fluoro-borate with sodium tetra-fluoro-borate. The imidazole ring makes a dihedral angle of 78.92 (13)° with the benzene ring.

In the title compound, C(17)H(17)N(2)O(+)·BF(4) (-), the central imidazolium ring makes dihedral angles of 74.58 (9) and 40.10 (6)° with the phenyl and 2-methoxy-phenyl rings, respectively. In the crystal, a strong π-π inter-action is observed between the imidazolium and 2-methoxy-phenyl rings, with a centroid-centroid distance of 3.5115 (15) Å. In addition, C-H⋯F and C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds and C...

In the title compound, K[Ag(C(11)H(12)N(2))(2)](2)(PF(6))(3), the 12-coordinate potassium cation lies on a crystallographic twofold axis and one of the hexa-fluoro-phosphate anions is generated by symmetry. In the complex cation, the Ag(I) ion is coordinated by two C atoms; the two imidazolium rings are orientated at a dihedral angle of 8.14 (14)°. In the 1-benzyl-3-methyl-imidazolium units, th...

Two kinds of novel chiral molecular tweezers containing imidazoliums were synthesized from L-alanine, L-phenylalanine, and L-glutamic acid. They are constructed by the chiral imidazolium pincers and two different spacers which are 1,3-bis (bromomethyl)benzene and 2,6-bis(bromomethyl)pyridine, respectively. The enantioselective recognition of L- and D-amino acid derivatives by these molecular tw...