The potential of a new anionic octahedral metal complex [Ru(III)(acac)2(pz)2](-) ((-)) (pzH = pyrazole) as a ligand with a scorpionate coordination behaviour like tris(pyrazolyl)borate (tp) and reversible redox activity is presented. Trinuclear metal complexes, [Ru(III)2Zn(II)(acac)4(pz)4] () and [Ru(II)Ru(III)2(acac)4(pz)4] (), were each synthesized by the reaction of ZnCl2 or Ru3(CO)12 with [...

Vibrational coherence was observed following excitation into the lowest-energy spin-allowed 4A2 / 4T2 ligand-field absorption of Cr(acac)3. The transient kinetics were fit to a rapidly damped 164 cm 1 oscillatory component, the frequency of which is not associated with the ground state of the molecule. The signal is assigned as an excited-state vibrational coherence; the timescale of the event ...

A series of Pd/SiO2 catalysts were prepared with different Pd precursors by a dry ball-milling method and used in the catalytic oxidation lean methane at low temperature. The effect on performance was investigated state most active species probed. results indicate that is simple but rather effective to prepare for oxidation, palladium acetylacetonate an ideal precursor obtain highly Pd/SiO2-Aca...

Chemical reduction of ferric acetylacetonate (Fe(acac)3) and platinum acetylacetonate (Pt(acac)2) using polyol as a reducing agent as well as an effective surfactant, has successfully yielded monodisperse FePt nanoparticles with a size of approximately 2 nm. When annealed samples were compared to FePt nanoparticles synthesized using oleic acid and oleylamine as the surfactants under identical c...

Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra were measured on the chloroform solutions of a series of mixed-ligand diamagnetic Co(III) complexes, [Co(tfac)(n)(acac)(3-n)] (n = 0-3, tfac = 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,4-pentanedionato; acac = acetylacetonato). Distinct differences were observed in the VCD spectra among the geometrical isomers of the same ligand composition. Such differentiation was hardly ...

In the title compound, [UO2(C5H7O2)2(C14H15N)], the uran-yl(VI) unit ([O=U=O](2+)) is coordinated to two acetyl-acetonate (acac) anions and one 1-phenyl-3-(pyridin-4-yl)propane (ppp) mol-ecule. The geometry around the U atom is UNO6 penta-gonal-bipyramidal; two uran-yl(VI) O atoms are located at the axial positions, whereas four O atoms from two chelating bidentate acac ligands and one N atom o...

Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy was applied to study the stereochemical properties of a star-burst type tetranuclear Ru(III) complex, Δ-(or Λ-)[{Δ-(or Λ-)-Ru(III)(acac)(2)(taet)}(3)Ru(III)] (acac = acetylacetonato; taet = tetraacetylethanato). By comparing the VCD spectra of eight diastereomeric enantiomers, it was shown that the spectra reflected the homo- or hetero-chiral na...

Reaction of [Ti4Zr4O6(OBu)4(OMc)16] (OMc = methacrylate) with acetylacetone (acacH) resulted in dissection of the cluster and formation of [Ti(OBu)2(acac)2] and the smaller cluster [Ti2Zr4O4(OMc)16]. In contrast, the same reaction with [Zr6O4(OH)4(OOCR)12]2·6RCOOH (R = Et, CH2CH=CH2) led to site-selective substitution of two carboxylate ligands and formation of isostructural [Zr6O4(OH)4(OOCR)12...

In this study, reactions of (PPh2)2NCH2CH2N(PPh2)2 (L1) and {(PPh2)2NCH2CH2}3N (L2) with [RuII(acac)2(CH3CN)2] led to the production new dinuclear complex [Ru(acac)2]2(L1) (1) trinuclear [Ru(acac)2]3(L2) (2). Complex 1 2 are excellent candidates for role catalyst precursors in transfer hydrogenation (TH) acetophenone its derivatives. Compared (1), (2) is an exceptional catalyst, producing corre...

The crystallization of [Mn(acac)(2)(H(2)O)(2)](+) from solutions containing excess nitrate leads to the formation of four polymorphs. All polymorphs contain two different types of complex ions, one containing essentially coplanar acac ligands and the other in which the two acac ligands together assume a chair conformation. Molecular modelling using DFT (density-functional theory) calculations s...