Conspectus Decarboxylation chemistry has a rich history, and in more recent times, it has
been recruited in the quest to develop cheaper, cleaner, and more efficient bond-coupling …

Platinum (Pt) and palladium (Pd) are precious metals considered critical in our society and
are needed in a variety of sustainable technologies. Their scarcity urges the increase of …

Carboxylic acids are valuable organic substrates as they are widely available, easy to
handle, and exhibit structural and functional variety. While they are used in many standard …

Palladium ate complexes are frequently invoked as important intermediates in Heck and
cross‐coupling reactions, but so far have largely eluded characterization at the molecular …

The gas-phase protodecarboxylation of acetic acid catalyzed by group 10 metal complexes
was examined using a combination of multistage mass spectrometry experiments in an ion …

A new palladium mediated “one pot” synthesis of thioamides from aromatic carboxylic acids
(ArCO2H+ RNCS→ ArC (S) NHR+ CO2) was discovered by gas-phase experiments and …

We report the gas-phase preparation, isolation, and reactivity of a series of
organolanthanides featuring the Ln–CH3 bond. The complexes are formed by …

Two novel synthetic routes were suggested for square-planar carboxylic platinum (ii)
complexes with acetic, pivalic, and benzoic ligands. In the first method, heating ionic …

C–C cross-coupling versus homo-coupling from the Pt (IV) complex [Pt (pbt) Br (CH2Ph)(Me)
2], 2a (pbt= 2-(2-pyridyl) benzothiazole), was studied experimentally and through density …

The ternary Pd complexes [(phen) Pd (H)]+(1-Pd) and [(phen) Pd (CH3)]+(5-Pd)(where
phen= 1, 10-phenanthroline) both react with hexane in a linear ion trap mass spectrometer …