Over the past decade, ruthenium-mediated metathesis transformations, including cross-metathesis, ring-closing metathesis, enyne metathesis, ring-opening metathesis polymerization, and also tandem processes, belong to the most intensively studied reactions. Many applications of olefin metathesis in the synthesis of natural products have been recently described. Also in the field of steroid chemi...

n-Alkyl arenes were prepared in a one-pot tandem dehydrogenation/olefin metathesis/hydrogenation sequence directly from alkanes and ethylbenzene. Excellent selectivity was observed when ((tBu)PCP)IrH2 was paired with tungsten monoaryloxide pyrrolide complexes such as W(NAr)(C3H6)(pyr)(OHIPT) (1a) [Ar = 2,6-i-Pr2C6H3; pyr = pyrrolide; OHIPT = 2,6-(2,4,6-i-Pr3C6H2)2C6H3O]. Complex 1a was also esp...

A novel phosphine-based tetragonal cage has been assembled from a tetraphenylethylene (TPE)-based tetraphosphine and Ag(+) ions. The cage structure is maintained both in solutions and in the solid state. emits strong fluorescence not only in dilute solutions but also in aggregated states. The turn-on fluorescence of TPE-P4 in dilute solutions is attributed to the formation of . shows potential ...

A diketiminato zinc amide complex, LZnNMe2 (1) [L = CH{(CMe)2(2,6-(i)Pr2C6H3N)2}], was prepared and investigated for the catalytic hydroamination of 2,2-dimethylpent-4-en-1-amine. The reaction with the amino olefin resulted in a transamination reaction and the subsequent insertion of the olefin moiety into the metal-amide bond. However, the reaction stopped at this point providing access to the...

The new highly active supported vanadium-magnesium catalyst (VMC) has been studied in α-olefin (1-butene, 1-hexene)/ ethylene copolymerization in the presence of hydrogen. Data on the effect of α-olefin/ethylene ratio in copolymerization on the content of branchings in copolymers, kinetic profile, copolymer yield, molecular weight and molecular weight distribution of copolymers have been obtain...

Facile, metal-mediated, (acceptorless) dehydrogenation of tricyclopentyl phosphine directly affords rhodium chelating phosphine-olefin complexes, some of which are catalytically active for 1,4-additions.