Cu(II) complexes of N2O2 type ligands, L(1)H2 and L(2)H2 [L(1)H2 = 6,6'-(((pyridin-2-ylmethyl)azanediyl)bis(methylene))bis(2,4-di-tert-butylphenol); L(2)H2 = 2,4-di-tert-butyl-6-(((3-(tert-butyl)-2-hydroxy-5-methylbenzyl)(pyridin-2-yl-methyl)amino)methyl)phenol], have been synthesized. Addition of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in THF solutions of the complexes resulted in the nitration at the 4-positi...

Catalytic oxidation of benzene under mild conditions is one of the most challenging reactions in synthetic chemistry. In order to develop a hydroxylation catalyst for benzene, we have designed and synthesized new copper(II) complexes with the bidentate ligand bis(1,4,5-trimethyl-2-imidazolyl)methane (Me6bim), [Cu(Me6bim)X2] (X = Cl, Br). This ligand provides a reaction space which can be easily...

Indium tin oxide (ITO) reacts with tetra(tert-butoxy)tin to give surface bound alkoxytin species. Ligand exchange occurs in these surface bound species by reaction with substituted phenols. The speciation of surface phenoxides was measured in ultrahigh vacuum by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, as was the work function for the surface modified ITO. It is shown that the molecular dipole moment ...

The title complex, [Ni(2)(C(42)H(46)Cl(2)N(6)O(2))(C(2)H(3)O(2))]ClO(4)·2CH(3)CN, was synthesized by condensation of 2,6-diformyl-4-chloro-phenol with N,N-bis-(amino-prop-yl)benzyl-amine in the presence of Ni(II) ions. The ligand is a 28-membered macrocycle with two identical pendant arms. The coordination geometries of the Ni atoms are both octa-hedral. The two Ni atoms are bridged by two phen...

The trinuclear arene–ruthenium cluster cation [H3Ru3(C6H6)(C6Me6)2(O)] þ, containing a l3-oxo cap and three arene ligand that span a hydrophobic pocket above the metal skeleton, has been crystallised as tetrafluoroborate salt in the presence of variou guest molecules. The host–guest complexes have been characterised by single-crystal X-ray structure analysis. With chloroform a the guest molecul...

The title compound, [Zn(2)(C(42)H(38)N(9)O(3))(2)(NO(3))(2)]·2CH(3)CN·0.5H(2)O, is a bis-phenolate-bridged dinuclear Zn(II) complex. The asymmetric unit comprises half the zinc complex (the full complex is completed by the application of a centre of inversion), one acetonitrile solvent mol-ecule and a quarter of a water mol-ecule (located on a twofold axis with half-occupancy; H atoms were not ...

Sperm whale myoglobin (Mb) has weak dehaloperoxidase activity and catalyzes the peroxidative dehalogenation of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (TCP) to 2,6-dichloroquinone. Crystals of Mb and of its more active G65T variant were used to study the binding of TCP, 4-iodophenol (4-IP) and phenol. The structures of crystals soaked overnight in a 10 mM solution of phenol revealed that a phenol molecule binds ...

An orthogonal set of Cu-catalysts for the selective mono-arylation of alkyl aryl diols using aryl iodides is presented. Picolinic acid ligated copper catalyst provided phenol O-arylation only, while alkyl aryl ethers are generated by ligand-free copper catalyst in the presence of 2 equivalents NaOt-Bu.