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Palladium-Catalyzed Heck Arylations in the Synthesis of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
The utility of inter- and intramolecular Heck arylations in the synthesis of intermediates for the preparation of active pharmaceutical ingredients...
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Chiral Ureas and Thiroureas in Asymmetric Catalysis
After an overview of chiral urea and thiourea synthetic methods, this review describes the main applications of urea and thiourea complexes in...
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Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Structure Determination from Diffraction Data
Evolutionary algorithms are finding increasing use in the study of a wide range of different types of diffraction data. In this chapter, we review...
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Development of Transition Metal-Mediated Cyclopropanation Reactions
A brief discussion of the methods for cyclopropane formation emphasizing organometallic reagents and catalysts is followed by several examples of the...
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Insight into the Catalytic Mechanism of Orotidine 5′-phosphate Decarboxylase from Crystallography and Mutagenesis
With a half-time of 78 million years at room temperature, the spontaneous decarboxylation of orotidine 5′-phosphate (OMP) is among the slowest...
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Excited States and Optical Spectroscopy of Nitronyl Nitroxides and their Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
Nitronyl nitroxides are stable free radicals that have been used to prepare new molecular solids with intriguing magnetic properties. These...
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Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Metal Carbenes
Metal carbenes have for a long time been classified as Fischer or Schrock carbenes depending on the oxidation state of the metal. Since the...
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Active Pd(II) Complexes as Either Lewis Acid Catalysts or Transition Metal Catalysts
The new frontier of asymmetric catalyses by Pd(II) complexes is reviewed. Asymmetric catalyses of carbon–carbon bond formation by Pd(II) complexes...
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The Cluster Approach for the Adsorption of Small Molecules on Oxide Surfaces
The correct description of the weak interaction between small molecules and oxide surfaces is still a challenge for theory. In the present review,...
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Magnetic Parameters and Magnetic Functions in Mononuclear Complexes Beyond the Spin-Hamiltonian Formalism
Using the spin-Hamiltonian formalism the magnetic parameters are introduced through the components of the Λ-tensor involving only the matrix...
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Anatomy of Catalytic Centers in Phillips Ethylene Polymerization Catalyst
A relevant fraction of the polyethylene produced in the world (about 30%) is obtained with the Phillips process. Many efforts in the last 30 years...
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Recent Advances in Alkene Metathesis
The last half decade has been a period of unprecedented development for the range of transition-metal-catalysed alkylidene exchange reactions...
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Novel Methods of Aromatic Functionalization Using Palladium and Norbornene as a Unique Catalytic System
Ordered reaction sequences involving palladacycles in oxidation states (II) and (IV) are described. Insertion of rigid olefins into arylpalladium...
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Enantioselectivity in the Dihydroxylation of Alkenes by Osmium Complexes
The asymmetric dihydroxylation of olefins by osmium tetroxide is one of the most useful reactions in organic synthesis. Apart from the enormous...
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Organometallacycles as Intermediates in Oxygen-Transfer Reactions. Reality or Fiction?
Organometallacyclic compounds have been suggested as intermediates in several transition metal mediated oxidation reactions without direct...
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Quantum Chemical Topology: on Bonds and Potentials
In this essay-like review two different aspects of the “Quantum Chemical Topology” (QCT) approach are critically discussed at great length. One is...
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Gas-Phase Thermochemistry and Mechanism of Organometallic Tin Oxide CVD Precursors
Organometallic compounds are commonly used precursors for the formation of tin oxide films by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods. The high...
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Single-Source-Precursor CVD: Alkoxy and Siloxy Aluminum Hydrides
Aluminum compounds with hydrogen as well as alkyl-oxy (alkoxy) or alkyl-silyl-oxy (siloxy) ligands (AlH3 -n (OR)...
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An Introduction to Evolutionary Computation and Evolutionary Algorithms
Numerous techniques exist in science for tackling large-scale optimisation problems. In many instances, scientists must identify the best solution...
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Ruthenium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds
Heterocyclic compounds have been synthesized by means of stoichiometric reagents under acidic or basic conditions. Recent progress of homogeneous...