On the basicity of organic bases in different media

S Tshepelevitsh, A Kütt, M Lõkov… - European journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The basicities of simple organic bases–aliphatic and aromatic amines, amidines,
phosphazenes, as well as saturated and unsaturated nitrogen heterocycles–are examined …

Polymerization of polar monomers mediated by main-group Lewis acid–base pairs

M Hong, J Chen, EYX Chen - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The development of new or more sustainable, active, efficient, controlled, and selective
polymerization reactions or processes continues to be crucial for the synthesis of important …

pKa values in organic chemistry–Making maximum use of the available data

A Kütt, S Selberg, I Kaljurand, S Tshepelevitsh… - Tetrahedron letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Acids and bases are ubiquitous. Sometimes, it is essential to know the accurate strength (pK
a values) of the acids/bases to work with, but sometimes just acidity/basicity order is enough …

Cyclopropenium ions in catalysis

RM Wilson, TH Lambert - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Cyclopropenium ions are the smallest class of aromatic compounds, satisfying
Hückel's rules of aromaticity with two π electrons within a three-membered ring. First …

Design of novel uncharged organic superbases: Merging basicity and functionality

K Vazdar, D Margetic, B Kovacevic… - Accounts of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus One of the constant challenges of synthetic chemistry is the molecular design
and synthesis of nonionic, metal-free superbases as chemically stable neutral organic …

Cooperative Sulfur Transformations at a Dinickel Site: A Metal Bridging Sulfur Radical and Its H-Atom Abstraction Thermochemistry

V Tagliavini, PC Duan, S Chatterjee… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Starting from the dinickel (II) dihydride complex [ML (Ni–H) 2](1 M), where L3–is a bis
(tridentate) pyrazolate-bridged bis (β-diketiminato) ligand and M+ is Na+ or K+, a series of …

Role of Ligand-Bound CO2 in the Hydrogenation of CO2 to Formate with a (PNP)Mn Catalyst

K Schlenker, EG Christensen, AA Zhanserkeev… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein, we describe the catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to formate with (PNP) Mn–H (PNP=
2, 6-bis (di-tert-butylphosphinomethyl) pyridine; Mn= Mn (CO) 2). Contrary to the established …

On the basicity of conjugated nitrogen heterocycles in different media

M Lõkov, S Tshepelevitsh, A Heering… - European journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this work we explored the relationship between the structure and solvent effects on the
basicity of a large selection of conjugated N‐heterocyclic nitrogen bases in different media …

Transition metal carbide complexes

A Reinholdt, J Bendix - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Carbide complexes remain a rare class of molecules. Their paucity does not reflect
exceptional instability but is rather due to the generally narrow scope of synthetic …

Cobalt-Group 13 Complexes Catalyze CO2 Hydrogenation via a Co(−I)/Co(I) Redox Cycle

MV Vollmer, J Ye, JC Linehan, BJ Graziano… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The Co (− I) dihydrogen complexes,[(η2-H2) CoML]−, where ML is the group 13
metalloligand, N (o-(NCH2PiPr2) C6H4) 3M, and M is Al, Ga, or In, were previously reported …