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Tin-Free Radical Reactions Mediated by Organoboron Compounds
The development of tin-free methods to run radical reactions is crucial for their applications in industrial processes as well as in drug...
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The Degenerative Radical Transfer of Xanthates and Related Derivatives: An Unusually Powerful Tool for the Creation of Carbon–Carbon Bonds
This review summarises recent work on the dithiocarbonyl group transfer reaction. Xanthates, in particular, have proved to be extremely useful for...
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Asymmetric Processes Catalyzed by Chiral (Salen)Metal Complexes
A wide variety of highly selective asymmetric reactions catalyzed by chiral (salen)metal complexes have been disclosed over the past decade. Salen...
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Sparteine as a Chiral Ligand for Asymmetric Catalysis
While the use of stoichiometric amounts of sparteine and related ligands in various asymmetric reactions often lead to highly enantioselective...
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Oxide- and Zeolite-supported “Molecular” Metal Clusters: Synthesis, Structure, Bonding, and Catalytic Properties
This review is a summary of supported metal clusters with nearly molecular properties. These clusters are formed by adsorption or surface-mediated...
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Tailored Oxide Materials via Thermolytic Molecular Precursor (TMP) Methods
A review of the thermolytic molecular precursor (TMP) method for the generation of multi-component oxide materials is presented. Various...
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Octahedral Zirconium Complexes as Polymerization Catalysts
The synthesis and X-ray structure of various octahedral zirconium complexes and their catalytic properties in the polymerization of α-olefins are...
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Progress in the Asymmetric Synthesis of 1,2-Diamines from Azomethine Compounds
Recent advances in the preparation of optically pure 1,2-diamines by stereoselective addition reactions to azomethine compounds (imines, iminium...
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Spectroscopic Characterization of Organometallic Centers on Insulator Single Crystal Surfaces:From Metal Carbonyls to Ziegler--Natta Catalysts
A detailed knowledge of the microscopic properties is one of the prerequisites for an understanding of heterogeneous catalysts. A strategy which...
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Ruthenium-Catalyzed C–C Bond Formation
Molecular ruthenium catalysts are now currently used to perform selective carbon–carbon bond formation by combination of simple substrates. Their...
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Cycloaddition Reactions of Group 6 Fischer Carbene Complexes
Group 6 heteroatom-stabilised carbene complexes (Fischer carbene complexes) offer many interesting possibilities to build rings (carbocycles and...
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Arylation Reactions via C-H Bond Cleavage
Various carbon nucleophiles having acidic C–H bonds, including active methylene compounds, ketones, aldehydes, esters, and so on, are arylated with...
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Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Unactivated Alkyl Electrophiles with Organometallic Compounds
For many years, unactivated alkyl electrophiles that contain β hydrogens were generally regarded as unsuitable partners for palladium-catalyzed...
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Use of N,N-Coordinating Ligands in Catalytic Asymmetric C--C Bond Formations: Example of Cyclopropanation, Diels--Alder Reaction, Nucleophilic Allylic Substitution
Chiral N,N-coordinating ligands have been particularly synthesized for their use as metal chelates catalyzing asymmetric C-C bond formations....
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Materials Chemistry of Group 13 Nitrides
The OMVPE process has been used to grow thin films of group 13 nitrides, namely GaN, InN, and AlN. In recent years there has been a great deal of...
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Cyclopropanation with Ruthenium Catalysts
In this decade, a variety of ruthenium complexes have been intensively investigated that exhibit catalytic activity for cyclopropanation of olefins...
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Ruthenium-Promoted Radical Processes Toward Fine Chemistry
Ruthenium holds a prominent position among the many transition metals used in radical chemistry. The dichlorotris(triphenylphosphine) complex...
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Activation of Inert C–H Bonds
The development of catalytic reactions involving carbon–hydrogen bond cleavage is one of the most attractive research subjects in organic and...
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Ferrocene–Peptide Bioconjugates
This chapter sketches an outline of ferrocene–peptide bioconjugates. A variety of ferrocene–peptide bioconjugates have been designed to induce...
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Catalytic Nickel–Iron–Sulfur Clusters: From Minerals to Enzymes
The geochemical theory of the origin of life proposes that primordial, pre-biotic reactions were carried out in a metal-sulfide-rich environment...