It has been established that a cationic gold(I)/(R)-DTBM-Segphos or (R)-BINAP complex catalyzes the atropselective intramolecular hydroarylation of alkynes leading to enantioenriched axially chiral 4-aryl-2-quinolinones and 4-arylcoumarins with up to 61% ee.

Solutions of surfactant-polymer mixtures often exhibit different foaming properties, compared to the solutions of the individual components, due to the strong tendency for formation of polymer-surfactant complexes in the bulk and on the surface of the mixed solutions. A generally shared view in the literature is that electrostatic interactions govern the formation of these complexes, for exampl...

The one-electron reduction of a cationic (allenylidene)[cyclic(alkyl) (amino)carbene]gold(i) complex leads to the corresponding neutral, paramagnetic, formally gold(0) complex. DFT calculations reveal that the spin density of this highly robust coinage metal complex is mainly located on the allenylidene fragment, with only 1.8 and 3.1% on the gold center and the CAAC ligand, respectively. In ad...

Recently, we showed that a biosurfactatnt 4-O-[(4',6'-di-O-acethyl-2',3'-di-O-alkanoyl)-beta-D-mannopyranosyl] meso-erythritol A (MEL-A) greatly increased the efficiency of gene transfection mediated by cationic liposomes in vitro. We then studied whether the high transfection efficiency of these liposomes is maintained in vivo for tumor cells in the mouse abdominal cavity. When a complex of th...

The reduction of the rhenium aryldiazenido complex [Cp*Re(CO)z(P-N2C&OMe)][BFJ results in the formation of the corresponding metal-bound dinitrogen complex Cp*Re(C0)2(N2). The mechanism of this transformation has been investigated by cyclic voltammetry (0, controlled-potentia1 electrolysis (CPE), and scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). The SECM analysis supported an electrochemical E& m...

An electron-transporting counter-anion, OXD-7-SO3-, was developed for a blue-green-emitting cationic iridium complex, which showed superior device performance in solution-processed phosphorescent light-emitting diodes over its counterpart complex with a PF6- counter-anion, due to the facilitated electron-injection/transport and more balanced carrier recombination imparted by OXD-7-SO3-.

From the reaction of CuICN with conc-NH4OH, a host-guest type 3D network complex , [[CuII(NH3)4(H2O)](H2O)@[CuI3(CN)5]]n was isolated and characterised. A unique cationic complex guest [CuII(NH3)4(H2O)]2+ is encapsulated in the anionic host cage [CuI3(CN)5]2-.

Although the Pd complex of the bis-phosphinimine pincer ligand 1,3-C(6)H(3)(CH(2)N=PPh(3))(2) is accessible, this ligand is also non-innocent in the formation of a phosphinimine-aminophosphine pincer complex; as well, both complexes undergo hydride abstraction generating unique formally cationic ligand complexes.

Nanoparticles are widely used in the papermaking industry as retention/ drainage aids, usually in conjunction with a high mass cationic polyelectrolyte such as cationic starch. However, little convincing knowledge of their role and mechanism in the wet-end system is yet found. This work focused on the role of nanosilica on papermaking wet end system in response to some processing parameters (dr...

The title complex, [Ni(C(12)H(8)N(2))(2)(H(2)O)(2)][Ni(CN)(4)]·C(4)H(8)O·H(2)O, consists of a cationic [Ni(C(12)H(8)N(2))(2)(H(2)O)(2)](2+) unit, an anionic [Ni(CN)(4)](2-) unit, one uncoordinated water and one tetra-hydro-furan mol-ecule. In the cationic unit, the Ni(2+) atom is coordinated by four N atoms and two O atoms from two 1,10-phenanthroline ligands and two water mol-ecules in a disto...