Mechanistic pathways of metalloenzymes are controlled by the metal ion's electronic and magnetic properties, which are tuned by the coordinated ligands. The functional advantage gained by incorporating cysteinates into the active site of non-heme iron enzymes such as superoxide reductase (SOR) is not entirely understood. Herein we compare the structural and redox properties of a series of struc...

In the title compound, (C(8)H(20)N)[ReBr(2)(C(7)H(9)N)(CO)(3)], the Re(I) atom is octa-hedrally surrounded by three carbonyl ligands orientated in a facial arrangement, two bromide ligands and an o-toluidine ligand. The amine lies trans to the carbonyl ligand and is substitutionally disordered over two positions in a 0.66 (1):0.34 (1) ratio. An array of C-H⋯O, C-H⋯Br and N-H⋯Br hydrogen-bonding...

In the conventional procedure of the preparation of aqueous semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), the growth of NCs was mainly through the thermodynamics-favored Ostwald ripening process. It required additional energy to promote NC growth, such as reflux, hydrothermal method, microwave irradiation, and sonochemical synthesis. Energy-promoted growth usually led to the decomposition of mercapto-ligan...

In the title compound, {[Ag(C(6)H(4)NO(2))(C(6)H(12)N(4))(H(2)O)]·2H(2)O}(n), the Ag(I) atom shows a distorted triangular pyramidal geometry,, formed by two N atoms from two hexa-methyl-ene-tetra-amine (hmt) ligands and one N atom from a pyridine-4-carboxyl-ate (4-pdc) ligand and one water mol-ecule. The hmt ligands bridge the Ag atoms, forming a chain along [001]. The carboxyl-ate group of the...

This report describes a method for patterning ligands onto mixed SAMs of alkanethiolates on gold by microcontact printing (μCP). The mixed SAMs were made from thiols presenting terminal tri(ethylene glycol) groups (HS(CH2)11(OCH2CH2)3OH, 1) and terminal hexa(ethylene glycol)-CH2CO2H groups (HS(CH2)11(OCH2CH2)6OCH2CO2H, 2). Ligands were printed using a two-step procedure. The carboxylic acid gro...

Organic pigments such as indigos, quinacridones, and phthalocyanines are widely produced industrially as colorants for everyday products as various as cosmetics and printing inks. Herein we introduce a general procedure to transform commercially available insoluble microcrystalline pigment powders into colloidal solutions of variously sized and shaped semiconductor micro- and nanocrystals. The ...

The cationic lanthanide complexes of two neutral tripodal N,O ligands, tpa (tris[(2-pyridyl)methyl]amine) and tpaam (tris[6-((2-N,N-diethylcarbamoyl)pyridyl)methyl]amine) are studied in water. The analysis of the proton lanthanide induced NMR shifts indicate that there is no abrupt structural change in the middle of the rare-earth series. Unexpectedly, the formation constant values of the lanth...

The title dinuclear complex, [Ag2(CN)3(C9H8N2)2], may be considered as an Ag(II) compound with the corresponding metal site coordinated by two bidentate quinolin-8-amine mol-ecules, one cyanide group and one dicyanidoargentate(I) anion, [Ag(CN)2](-). Since this latter ligand contains an Ag(I) atom, the complex should be a class 1 or class 2 mixed-valence compound, according to the Robin-Day cla...

Ru complexes with chiral diphosphines and amine-based ligands achieve high catalytic activity and enantioselectivity for the hydrogenation of ketones under neutral to slightly basic conditions. The chiral environment is controllable by changing the combination of these two ligands. A concerted six-membered transition state is proposed to be the origin of the high reactivity. The eta(6)-arene/Ts...