X-Ray crystal structures are reported for five silver(I) complexes of four monoterpenoid alkenes. Discrete mononuclear complexes of the chiral alkenes (1S)-(-)-α-pinene and (1S)(-)-β-pinene with silver perchlorate and silver hexafluorophosphate are described. The achiral diene γ-terpinene forms a discrete mononuclear adduct with silver hexafluorophosphate and a two-dimensional polymeric network...

We report a mild method for generating the diphosphorus molecule or its synthetic equivalent in homogeneous solution; the P2 allotrope of the element phosphorus is normally obtained only under extreme conditions (for example, from P4 at 1100 kelvin). Diphosphorus is extruded from a niobium complex designed for this purpose and can be trapped efficiently by two equivalents of an organic diene to...

The title compound, C(14)H(16), was prepared through [2 + 2] cyclo-addition of norbornadiene. There are two independent mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit: each is centrosymmetric with the centroid of the four-membered ring located about an inversion center. Each mol-ecule possesses an exo-trans-exo conformation.

This work discusses the dependence of transition state geometries on the choice of quantum chemical optimization method for the extensively studied Diels-Alder reaction. Rather significant differences are observed between post-Hartree-Fock methods and (hybrid) density functional theory, where the latter predicts larger asynchronicities. The results show that the low MP2 asynchronicity observed ...

In the title compound, [Fe(C(5)H(5))(2)(C(13)H(11)N(2)O(2))], the dihedral angle between the benzene ring and the cyclo-penta-diene ring bonded to the carbonyl group is 26.1 (2)°. In the crystal, bifurcated O-H⋯(O,N) and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into a three-dimensional network.

[reaction: see text] This Letter describes the synthesis of the hemibrevetoxin B tetracyclic ring system in 14 linear transformations from the Danishefsky-Kitahara diene.

Attempts to generate a proposed rhodium hydride catalytic intermediate instead resulted in isolation of (Cp*H)Rh(bpy)Cl (1), a pentamethylcyclopentadiene complex, formed by C-H bond-forming reductive elimination from the fleeting rhodium hydride. The hydride transfer ability of diene 1 was explored through thermochemistry and hydride transfer reactions, including the reduction of NAD(+).