We performed ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy of J-aggregates of 3,3'-disulfopropyl-5,5'-dichloro-9-ethyl thiacarbocyanine triethylammonium (THIATS), one of the most typical cyanine dyes, and detected excited molecular vibrations, using a sub-10 fs pulse laser. The time-resolved two-dimensional difference absorption (ΔA) spectra are observed between -314 and 1267 fs. By performing the Fourier ...

The crystal structure of bis(triethylammonium)c/o5o-decahydrodecaborate [bis(triethylammonium)decaboranate(lO)], [(CaHs^NHMBioHio], was determined and refined (space group Pmmn, no. 59, a = 989.7, b = 1333.7, c = 903.7 pm). The compound is a versatile starting material for many substances containing the [BioHio]2entity and its derivatives. The c7oso-[BioHio]2cluster is a bicapped square antipri...

The monophosphinite ligands, 1D-1,2;5,6-di-O-cyclopentylidene-3-O-methyl-4-O-diphenylphosphino-chiro-inositol (D-P1), 1D-1,2;5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-3-O-methyl-4-O-diphenylphosphino-chiro-inositol (D-P2), 1D-1,2;5,6-di-O-cyclohexylidene-3-O-methyl-4-O-diphenylphosphino-chiro-inositol (D-P3), and 1D-1,2;5,6-di-O-cyclopentylidene-3-O-ethyl-4-O-diphenylphosphino-chiro-inositol (D-P4), can be conve...

A family of supramolecular cage molecules has been obtained via self-assembly of the phosphine-gold coordination complexes following an aurophilicity-driven aggregation approach. Use of the di- (PP) or tridentate (PPP) phosphine ligands Pn (n = 2, 3) with rigid polyaromatic backbones leads to clean formation of the coordination Pn(Au(tht))n(n+) species, sequential treatment of which with H2O/NE...

Treatment of (chloro)gold(I) complexes of diand tetra-tertiary phosphines with equivalent quantities of sodium quinoline-2-thiolate in methanol / dichloromethane affords the correspond­ ing (phosphine)gold(I) quinoline-2-thiolates in high yields. The diand tetranuclear complexes, respectively, of a,u>bis(diphenylphosphino)-propane (1), -butane (2) and -pentane (3) and of tris(2-diphenylphosphin...

The "frustrated Lewis pair" 1,8-bis(diphenylphosphino)naphthalene/B(C6F5)3 reversibly activates dihydrogen; it serves as an active catalyst for the hydrogenation of silyl enol ethers under mild reaction conditions.