Designing magnesium-selective ligands using coordination chemistry principles

Coordination Chemistry in magnesium battery electrolytes: how ligands affect their performance

Magnesium battery is potentially a safe, cost-effective, and high energy density technology for large scale energy storage. However, the development of magnesium battery has been hindered by the limited performance and the lack of fundamental understandings of electrolytes. Here, we present a study in understanding coordination chemistry of Mg(BH₄)₂ in ethereal solvents. The O donor denticity, ...

Outer-sphere coordination chemistry: amido-ammonium ligands as highly selective tetrachloridozinc(II)ate extractants.

Eight new amido functionalized reagents, L(1)-L(8), have been synthesized containing the sequence of atoms R(2)N-CH(2)-NR'-CO-R″, which upon protonation forms a six-membered chelate with a hydrogen bond between the tertiary ammonium N-H(+) group and the amido oxygen atom. The monocationic ligands, LH(+), extract tetrachloridometal(II)ates from acidic solutions containing high concentrations of ...

Proton-Responsive Pyridine-Based Ligands. Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis

Mechanochemistry of magnesium oxide revisited: facile derivatisation of pharmaceuticals using coordination and supramolecular chemistry.

Liquid-assisted grinding allows the rapid, waste-free and one-pot synthesis of a variety of magnesium drug derivatives directly from the excipient MgO; such reactivity is relevant for the behaviour of ibuprofen formulations involving MgO and can be used for oxide-based mechanosynthesis of metal-organic salts, discrete complexes and carboxylate clusters involving magnesium and pharmaceutically a...

VIII-B Coordination Chemistry of Sterically Hindered Ligands and Multidentate Ligands, and Activation of Small Molecules

Thiolate complexes continue to attract considerable attention due to their unique chemical properties and structural diversity. Since thiolate groups meet the electronic and steric requirements necessary to stabilize a wide variety of metal complexes, they have been used as auxiliary ligands. On the other hand, thiolate complexes are known to undergo chemistry at the sulfur center, including ox...