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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... -
The Zintl–Klemm Concept Applied to Cations in Oxides. II. The Structures of Silicates
The structures of ternary and quaternary silicates are revisited on the basis of the Zintl–Klemm concept and the Pearson's generalised octet rule.... -
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... -
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... -
Probing Hydrogen Bonding in Solids Using Solid State NMR Spectroscopy
Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful and versatile technique for probing structural and dynamic properties of... -
Crystallographic Studies of Native and Mutant Orotidine 5′phosphate Decarboxylases
This review aims to use the results of an approach combining crystallographic structure analysis with mutational studies as a framework for the... -
Electrophoretic mobility of colloidal particles in salt-free media
It is shown that the electrophoretic mobility μ of dilute spherical colloidal particles of radius a, carrying charge Q in a salt-free medium... -
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... -
Liquid Crystalline Polymers by Metathesis Polymerization
Liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) have gained attention as materials with interesting optical, mechanical and rheological properties. This review... -
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... -
Intraband Spectroscopy and Semiconductor Nanocrystals
This chapter reviews intraband spectroscopy as it has been applied to semiconductor nanocrystals synthesized by colloid methods. -
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... -
Application of Evolutionary Algorithms to Global Cluster Geometry Optimization
This contribution focuses upon the application of evolutionary algorithms to the nondeterministic polynomial hard problem of global cluster geometry... -
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... -
PAEs with Heteroaromatic Rings
This article reviews the synthesis and chemical properties of poly(aryleneethynylene)s, PAEs, consisting of sulfur-containing heteroaromatic rings... -
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... -
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... -
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.... -
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... -
Efficient Methods to Compute Long-Range Interactions for Soft Matter Systems
An extensive introduction to the topic of how to compute long-range interactions efficiently is presented. First, the traditional Ewald sum for 3D...