We report, for the first time, the use of a water-soluble organometallic compound as a stable, reliable and high-contrast photoacoustic contrast agent. This gives a significantly higher contrast than that achievable with alternatives such as single-walled carbon nanotubes. Image enhancement of the rat cerebral cortex vasculature was observed using in vivo dark-field photoacoustic microscopy.

The combination of a ditopic ligand containing a functional "third site" as a bridge and organometallic half-sandwich iridium unit Cp*Ir as the corner leads to the formation of the tetranuclear metallamacrocycle 1, which is reacted with silver compound, resulting in the formation of mixed-metal infinitely tubular coordination network 2.

Addition of terpyridine to (TMEDA)Ni(CH3)2 results in the high-yield formation of (terpyridyl)NiMe (3). This NiI organometallic complex was found to be capable of transferring its methyl group to iodocyclohexane to produce methylcyclohexane in high yield. Compound 3 can also serve as an initiator for the catalytic cross-coupling of alkyl electrophiles performed under Negishi-like conditions.

Multinuclear organometallic species play a significant role in alkylation of carbonyl compounds. Enantioselective alkylation of aldehydes using a 1: 1 reagent/substrate stoichiometry is achievable by chirally modified lithium/magnesium binary organometallic reagents. For example, diethylmagnesium treated with di-O-lithio-(S)-2.2'dihydroxy1, 1'-binaphthyl reacts with benzaldehyde in a THFdimetho...

Organometallic complexes have unique physico-chemical properties, which have been widely used in homogenous catalysis, for example, for the synthesis of lead compounds and drug candidates. Over the past two decades, a few scientists from all over the world have extended the use of the specific characteristics of these compounds (e.g. structural diversity, possibility of ligand exchange, redox a...

CONCLUSION This paper has demonstrated that PbH, is not generated in organic media in conditions similar to those required in water. It has been proved that when lead is introduced in the form of a volatile organometallic compound, such as PbR4, the process that takes place is the volatilization of the PbR, itself and not the formation of PbH4 as might be expected. This volatilization is even m...

We report on experiments that probe photosensitized chemistry at the air/water interface, a region that does not just connect the two phases but displays its own specific chemistry. Here, we follow reactions of octanol, a proxy for environmentally relevant soluble surfactants, initiated by an attack by triplet-state carbonyl compounds, which are themselves concentrated at the interface by the p...