We report the alternating ring-opening copolymerization of dihydrocoumarin with epoxides catalyzed by chromium(III) salen complexes. This process provides access to a range of perfectly alternating polyesters with high molecular weights and narrow molecular weight distributions. Atactic poly(cyclohexene dihydrocoumarate) and poly(cyclopentene dihydrocoumarate) were found to be semi-crystalline ...

An insoluble, porous, amorphous, homochiral material based on a polypeptide titanium-phosphonate scaffold with an encapsulated achiral Mn(III)-salen was prepared and characterized. Consecutive epoxidation and hydration of styrene and its derivatives by aqueous hypochlorite in THF showed the highly enantioselective (>99%) formation of styrene diol derivatives.

3-Dialkylaminomethyl substituted salicylaldoximes are efficient metal salt extractants, and, in contrast to related "salen"-based reagents, are sufficiently stable to acid hydrolysis to allow commercial application in base metal recovery. Crystal structures show that metal salts are bound by a zwitterionic form of the reagents, with copper(II) nitrate, tetrafluoroborate and trifluoroacetate for...

Enantioselective epoxidation reactions of some chosen reactive alkenes by a chiral Mn(III) salen catalyst were performed in H₂O employing H₂O₂ as oxidant and diethyltetradecylamine N-oxide (AOE-14) as surfactant. This procedure represents an environmentally benign protocol which leads to e.e. values ranging from good to excellent (up to 95%).

Coupling with robust surfaces is a promising approach to improve the stability and recyclability of highly active molecular catalysts. This study builds on our prior success to deposit a Co(iii) cyclam complex, where cyclam is 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane, on mesoporous silica via a microwave-assisted process. The Co(iii) complex was successfully deposited on the silica surface through rea...

The mode of chiral interaction between a series of asymmetric epoxides (propylene oxide, butylene oxide, epifluorohydrin and epichlorohydrin) and a chiral vanadyl salen complex, N, N'-bis(3,5-di-tert-butylsalicylidene)-1,2-cyclohexane-diamino-vanadium (iv) oxide, [VO()], was investigated by a range of electron magnetic resonance techniques (EPR, ENDOR, HYSCORE) and DFT. Enantiomer discriminatio...

Two new neutral hexacoordinated silicon complexes with SiN(4)O(2) (6) and SiN(3)O(2)C (7) coordinating frameworks were synthesized by reaction of the O,N,N,O-donor salen-type ligand 1,2-bis[[(2-hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)(phenyl)methylene]amino]ethane (H(2)salen*) with Si(NCS)(4) and HMeSi(NCS)(2), respectively. The complexes 6 [Si(salen*)(NCS)(2)] and 7 [Si(salen*)Me(NCS)] were studied in the sol...

An efficient three-component reaction of indole, aldehyde, and malononitrile in water catalyzed by a copper(II) sulfonato Salen complex afforded 3-indole derivatives in good to excellent yields up to 97%.

The isolation and full characterization of multinuclear Schiff base complexes is reported, and their relevance as precursors for octanuclear Zn(8) salen cluster complex formation is discussed. Starting from simple precursors, three tetranuclear Zn(4) complexes were accessed that incorporate typical half-salen units and comprise of bridging acetates. The use of alternative reaction conditions or...