Reaction of [MoO2(acac)2] (where acac = acetylacetonate) with two similar hydrazone ligands in ethanol yielded two ethanol-coordinated mononuclear molybdenum(VI) oxo complexes with general formula [MoO2L(EtOH)], where L = L1 = (N'-(3,5-dibromo-2-hydroxybenzylidene)-4-nitrobenzohydrazide (H2L1), and L = L2 = (N'-(3,5-dibromo-2-hydroxybenzylidene)-2-fluorobenzohydrazide (H2L2). Crystal and molecu...

Fe(x)Pt(y)Au(100-x-y) nanoparticles of size 3.5 nm were prepared by polyol reduction of platinum acetylacetonate and gold acetate and the thermal decomposition of iron pentacarbonyl. The as-synthesized nanoparticles with disordered fcc structure were then heat treated to transform to the L1(0) structure with high magnetocrystalline anisotropy. By tuning the stoichiometry of the Fe(x)Pt(y)Au(100...

Two preparation methods (wet saturation impregnation with vanadyl acetylacetonate and ball-milling of γ-Al2O3 with crystalline V2O5) were applied to produce two sets of VOx/γ-Al2O3 catalysts with increasing vanadium loadings. Materials from both sets were characterized by XRD, SEM, Raman, TPR and UV/Vis-DRS to elucidate the influence of the preparation method on the morphology of VOx species an...

Among many kinds of magnetic materials, L10-phase FePt shows almost the highest magnetic anisotropy resulting in high coercivity [1]. Thus, FePt has been intensively studied as material for magnetic recording media with a storage capacity of Tbit/in [2]. After the IBM group reported the synthesis of FePt nanoparticles (NPs) in liquid phase using iron pentacarbonyl [Fe(CO)5] and platinum(II) ace...

Reaction of metal-free N-confused 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-chlorophenyl)porphyrin (H2NTClPP) with metal-free 5,10,15,20-tetrakis[(4-tert-butyl)phenyl]porphyrin (H2TBPP) in the presence of M(III)(acac)3·nH2O (acac = acetylacetonate) in refluxing 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene (TCB) led to the isolation of heteroleptic bis(porphyrinato) rare earth compounds M(III)(HNTClPP)(TBPP) (M = La, Pr) (1, 2) in 6.7-1...

Azido Coordination, Imidazole Adducts, Structural Interconversion A number of mixed-ligand complexes of cobalt(III) containing coordinated azide ion, acetylacetonate anion and the neutral base imidazole and, having the general formula [Co(acac)2(N3)(Im)] (Im = imidazole or its derivatives) have been synthesised by the reaction of K[rrans-Co(acac)2(N3)2] with the biologically active ligand imida...

Linkers that favor rectification of interfacial electron transfer are likely to be required for efficient photo-driven catalysis of multi-electron reactions at electrode surfaces. Design principles are discussed, together with the synthesis and characterization of a specific pair of molecular linkers, related by inversion of the direction of an amide bond in the heart of the molecule. The linke...

We demonstrated that single-crystalline cobalt monoxide (CoO) hollow spheres and octahedra could be selectively synthesized via thermal decomposition of cobalt(II) acetylacetonate in 1-octadecene solvent in the presence of oleic acid and oleylamine. The morphologies and sizes of as-prepared CoO nanocrystals could be controlled by adjusting the reaction parameters. Cobalt oxide (Co(3)O(4)) hollo...