Manganese has attracted significant recent attention due to its abundance, low toxicity, and versatility in catalysis. In the present study, a series of manganese (III) complexes supported by salan ligands have been synthesized characterized, their activity as catalysts hydrosilylation carbonyl compounds was examined. While chloride exhibited minimal catalytic efficacy without activation silver...

Manganese dioxide is employed as an in situ oxidant for the one-pot conversion of alcohols into imines. In combination with polymer-supported cyanoborohydride (PSCBH), a one-pot oxidation-imine formation-reduction sequence is reported. This procedure enables alcohols to be converted directly into both secondary and tertiary amines.

Electrochemical reactions for hydrogen and peroxide production are essential energy conversion to diminish crisis, but still lack efficient electrocatalysts. Development of non\-noble metal bifunctional electrocatalysts evolution 2e oxygen reduction reaction ease kinetics is a challenging task. Integration single components by employing easy strategies provides key\-step towards the realization...

The assembly of a tetradeca-manganese magnetic cluster [Mn(14)W(48)O(192)H(20)](26-), containing two high spin Mn(7) cores and supported exclusively by isopolytungstate ligands, demonstrates the promising perspective of using "defect" isopolyanions as ligands/synthons to construct large aggregated structures and model the surface deposition of molecular magnets.

The photophysical properties of 2.3 nm thioglycolic acid (TGA) coated CdTe quantum dots (QDs) prepared by a reflux method have been studied in the presence of cationic meso-tetrakis(4-N-methylpyridyl) zinc porphyrin (ZnTMPyP4). Addition of the CdTe QDs to the porphyrin in H(2)O results in a marked red-shift and hypochromism in the porphyrin absorption spectrum, indicative of a non-covalent bind...

The synthesis, characterization and photophysical properties of a series of “center-to-edge” type phosphorus() porphyrin arrays in which the central phosphorus atom of one phosphorus() porphyrin is connected to the mesophenoxy edge of the other phosphorus() porphyrin(s) are described. The conformation of the porphyrin arrays is estimated from the NMR data on the basis of the porphyrin ring c...