The Front Cover shows Pd-Zn alloy nanoparticles encapsulated in mesoporous silica (Pd-Zn@MS) to demonstrate confinement effects for the highly selective semi-hydrogenation of phenylacetylene. In their Full Paper, Z. Li, M. Hu et al. explain that Pd-Zn@MS prepared via annealing Pd NPs@ZIF-8 a reducing atmosphere and as-obtained achieves up 95% conversion rate 92% selectivity. exhibits steric hin...

2-Phenylindoles were prepared by heteroannulation of 2-haloaniline derivatives and phenylacetylene under mild conditions in a one-pot reaction catalyzed by Pd(PPh3)2Cl2.

Reaction temperature plays a major role in product selectivity in the oscillatory mode of the palladium-catalyzed phenylacetylene oxidative carbonylation reaction. At 40 °C, dimethyl (2Z)-2-phenyl-2-butenedioate is the major product whereas at 0 °C the major product is 5,5-dimethoxy-3-phenyl-2(5H)-furanone. The occurrence of oscillations in pH coincides with an increase in the rate of phenylace...

Palladium nanoparticles were deposited and reduced by gelatin as a safe edible, naturally occurring and cheap support. No extra reducing agents were used for the generation of Pd(0) nanoparticles from the Pd(II) salt. The nanoparticles of Pd supported on gelatin were characterized by SEM, TEM and AFM images, UV-Vis and XRD spectra and the amount of palladium entrapped in the gelatin was measure...

In this report, we have presented the first diastereoselective addition of phenylacetylene to chiral racemic chloroketones. The addition is controlled by the reactivity of the chloroketones that allowed the stereoselective reaction to be performed at -20 °C. Chiral racemic chloroketones are used in the reaction. By carefully controlling the temperature and the reaction time we were able to isol...

Traditional pictures of optical properties in phenylacetylene dendrimers view the molecule as a collection of independent chromophores, linked by meta-substitution at the central phenyl ring. While this picture is reasonable for explaining the observed absorption trends, it breaks down in describing the emission behavior. We utilize a combination of ab initio theory and experiment to demonstrat...

Homoleptic zinc(II) complexes of di(phenylacetylene)azadipyrromethene (e.g., Zn(WS3)2) are potential non-fullerene electron acceptors for organic photovoltaics. To tune their properties, fluorination of Zn(WS3)2 at various positions was investigated. Three fluorinated azadipyrromethene-based ligands were synthesized with fluorine at the para-position of the proximal and distal phenyl groups, an...

A dinuclear ruthenium catalyst with a rigid anthracene spacer shows excellent regio- and stereo-selectivity in the atom-economic addition of aliphatic carboxylic acids to phenylacetylene, producing exclusively anti-Markovnikov enol-esters with high E/Z ratios of the isomers.