Dinuclear trihydroxido-bridged osmium-arene complexes are inert and biologically inactive, but we show here that linking dihydroxido-bridged Os(II) -arene fragments by a bridging di-imine to form a metallacycle framework results in strong antiproliferative activity towards cancer cells and distinctive knotting of DNA. The shortened spacer length reduces biological activity and stability in solu...

The decomposition of N2O on dinuclear oxygen-bridged iron sites in Fe-ZSM-5 was simulated under steady-state conditions considering the reaction mechanism and the rate parameters proposed by Hansen et al. [J. Phys. Chem. C 111 (2007) 2092] on the basis of DFT calculations. The presence of low concentrations of water vapor in the feed stream (ppb to ppm levels) affects the calculated values for ...

A reactive high-valent dinuclear nickel(IV) oxido bridged complex is reported that can be formed at room temperature by reaction of [(L)2Ni(II)2(μ-X)3]X (X = Cl or Br) with NaOCl in methanol or acetonitrile (where L = 1,4,7-trimethyl-1,4,7-triazacyclononane). The unusual Ni(IV) oxido species is stabilized within a dinuclear tris-μ-oxido-bridged structure as [(L)2Ni(IV)2(μ-O)3]2+. Its structure ...

Neutral dinuclear dithiolato-bridged pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Rh(III) complexes of the type (C5Me5)2Rh2(μ-SR)2Cl2 (R = CH2Ph, 1; R = CH2CH2Ph, 2) and cationic dinuclear trithiolato-bridged pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Rh(III) and Ir(III) complexes of the type [(C5Me5)2M2(μ-SR)3](+) (M = Rh, R = CH2Ph, 3; M = Rh, R = CH2CH2Ph, 5; M = Rh, R = CH2C6H4-p-(t)Bu, 7: M = Ir, R = CH2Ph, 4; M = Ir, R ...

The dinuclear dialkoxo-bridged complexes [(TiCl)(2)(mu-O(2)L)(mu-{(eta(5)-C(5)Me(4)SiMeO)(2)(mu-O)})] (O(2)L = 1,2-O(2)C(2)H(4), 1,2-O(2)C(6)H(4), 1,2-(OCH(2))(2)C(6)H(4), O(2)SiPh(2)) were obtained by reaction of [(TiCl(2))(2)(mu-{(eta(5)-C(5)Me(4)SiMeO)(2)(mu-O)})] () with the corresponding dilithium salt () or diol (, , ). Alkylation of and with ClRMg afforded [(TiR)(2)(mu-O(2)L)(mu-{(eta(5)...

Nanoparticles of a new dinuclear silver(I) complex [Ag2(PPh3)2(μ-S-4nb-tsc)2(η1-S-4nb-tsc)2](NO3)2, where 4nb-tsc = 4-nitrobenzylidenethiosemicarbazone and PPh3 = triphenylphosphine, were prepared in an ultrasonic bath and characterized by FT-IR and SEM. The crystal structure of a suitable single crystal prepared by slow evaporation was determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The compou...

A series of benzobisimidazolium salts 1a-d has been prepared by tetraalkylation of benzobisimidazol. The salts 1a-d react with two equivalents of [Pt(Cl)2dppe] in the presence of 2.2 equivalents of sodium acetate to yield the dinuclear biscarbene complexes 2a-d. Under the same reaction conditions, the benzobisimidazolium salts react with only one equivalent of [Pt(Cl)2dppe] and one equivalent o...