Themed collection ISACS: Challenges in Inorganic Chemistry

The hydrogenation of dicarboxylic acids and their esters in the presence of anilines provides a new synthesis of heterocycles.

Comparison of an iron(I)–alkene complex to a nitrogenase intermediate using ENDOR reveals details of the binding geometry.

Herein, we have developed a white-light-emitting system based on the formation of discrete lanthanide-based self-assembled complexes using a newly-designed ligand. We demonstrate that fine tuning of the lanthanide ions molar ratio in the self-assemblies combined with the intrinsic blue fluorescence of the ligand allows for the successful emission of pure white light with CIE coordinates of (0.33, 0.34).

Organic isocyanates are readily converted to methyl amine products through their hydroboration with HBpin in the presence of a β-diketiminato magnesium catalyst.

The soluble 115 nuclear silver cluster [Ag₁₁₅S₃₄(SCH₂C₆H₄^tBu)₄₇(dpph)₆] was synthesized and fully characterized in solution and in the solid state.

The synthesis of antimony-ligated dysprosium SMMs is described in addition to the unexpected reactivity of the SMMs in stibine dehydrocoupling catalysis.

The uranyl(VI) complex UO₂Cl(L) of the redox-active diimino-dipyrrin anion, L⁻ is reported and its reactions with inner- and outer-sphere reductants studied.

We employ ac susceptibility as a probe of small changes of transverse zero-field splitting, revealing that these subtle changes transform [Co(C₃S₅)₂]²⁻ from a molecular magnet to a candidate qubit.

Reaction of [3-N₂-o-C₂B₁₀H₁₁][BF₄] with various kinds of nucleophiles gives a very broad spectrum of cage B(3)-substituted o-carborane derivatives, 3-X-o-C₂B₁₀H₁₁ (X = OH, SCN, NH₂, NO₂, N₃, CF₃, PO(C₆H₅)₂, etc.), and serves as a simple and efficient method for multiple functionalization of o-carborane.