A series of aluminum salen-type complexes [where salen is N,N'-bis(salicylaldimine)-1,2-ethylenediamine] bearing ligands that differ in their steric and electronic properties have been synthesized and investigated for the polymerization of rac-lactide. X-ray crystal structures on key precatalysts reveal metal coordination geometries intermediate between trigonal bipyramidal and square-based pyr...

We present significant algorithmic improvements to a recently proposed direct quantum dynamics method, based upon combining well established grid-based quantum dynamics approaches and expansions of the potential energy operator in terms of a weighted sum of Gaussian functions. Specifically, using a sum of low-dimensional Gaussian functions to represent the potential energy surface (PES), combin...

The title Mn(III) compound, {[Mn(C(18)H(18)N(2)O(4))(CH(3)COO)]·CH(3)OH}(n), was synthesized by a reaction between mangan-ese(II) acetate and ethyl-enebis(4-meth-oxy-salicylaldimine). The structure is made up of bis-(4-meth-oxy-salicyldene)ethyl-enediaminatomanganese(III) units bridged by acetate groups, with Mn-N = 1.9786 (9), Mn-O = 1.8784 (10) and Mn-O(acetate) = 2.056 (9) and 2.2571 (9) Å, ...

have been structurally characterized, relatively few free Schiff bases have been similarly characterized.1 N-Substituted salicylaldimines show photochromism and thermochromism in the solid state. These effects are produced by intramolecular proton transfer associated with a change in the π-electron configuration.2 As part of a general study of tetradentate Schiff bases, we determined the struct...

High throughput screening (HTS) of a 205 member Schiff base salicylaldimine ligand library derived from salicylaldehydes bearing bulky ortho-substituents, i.e., 9-anthracenyl, 1,4,5,8-tetramethylanthracenyl or triptycenyl, reacted in-situ with (p-tolyl)CrCl2(thf)3, identified two new classes of highly active chromium based systems for the oligomerization and polymerization of ethylene, respecti...

The reaction of cis-[PtCl₂(dmso)] with the salicylaldimine ligand, N-(2-hydroxybenzylidene)-2,6-di-isopropylaniline, LA in the presence of sodium acetate in methanol produced both cis- and trans-[PtClLA(dmso)], 1a and 1b. An analogous reaction for the less bulky ligand, N-(2-hydroxybenzylidene)aniline LB produced only cis-[PtClLB(dmso)], 2. The reactions of these dmso complexes with triphenylph...

A series of trans-Pt(II)(salicylaldimine)(4-picoline)Cl complexes were synthesized in 78-87% yield using a one-pot procedure from commercially available precursors. The structures of these complexes were characterized by (1)H, (19)F and (13)C NMR spectroscopy, HRMS (ESI) as well as single crystal X-ray analysis. Bioactivity investigations including bio-assay, time- and dose-dependent, cell cycl...

Several derivatives and analogs of the recently reported antiproliferative and antitumor agent trans-bis(salicylaldoximato)copper(II) (CuSAO2) have been prepared and tested for antiproliferative activity against L1210 leukemia cells in vitro. The salicylaldimine analog of CuSAO2 had a very strong antiproliferative activity, the 2-day IC50 value being lower than 3 micrograms/ml. The 2,3-dihydrox...