The stoichiometry and thermodynamic stability of vanadium(IV/V) complexes of Triapine and two related α(N)-heterocyclic thiosemicarbazones (TSCs) with potential antitumor activity have been determined by pH-potentiometry, EPR and (51)V NMR spectroscopy in 30% (w/w) dimethyl sulfoxide/water solvent mixtures. In all cases, mono-ligand complexes in different protonation states were identified. Dim...

BACKGROUND Aryl sulfides have significant importance from biological and pharmaceutical aspects. Transition metal-catalyzed carbon-sulfur cross-coupling reaction represents an important tool for the synthesis of sulfides. Among various transition metals, copper salts or oxides have found vast applicability. RESULTS A simple procedure for the preparation of poly-ionic amberlite resins embedded...

We describe the preparation of helically chiral gold(I) complexes bearing a [5]helicenic-N-heterocyclic carbene ligand. They were successfully obtained as enantiopure compounds by semi-preparative HPLC and their structural, chiroptical, photophysical properties subsequently investigated. Notably, strong electronic circular dichroism, dual emission from singlet triplet states, with timescale lat...

Metal catalysts based on ligands containing proton-responsive sites have found widespread applications in the hydrogenation of polar unsaturated substrates. In this contribution, Ir complexes incorporating lutidine-derived CNP (C = N-heterocyclic carbene, NHC; P phosphine) pincer with two nonequivalent Brønsted acid/base been examined aldehydes. To end, Ir(CNP)H2Cl were synthesized steps from l...

A series of new piano-stool iron(II) complexes comprising monoand bidentate chelating N-heterocyclic carbene ligands [Fe(cp)(CO)(NHC)(L)]X have been prepared and analyzed by spectroscopic, electrochemical, crystallographic, and theoretical methods. Selectively substituting the L site with a series of ligands going from carbene to pyridine to CO suggests that CO is the strongest π acceptor, whil...

Abstract The reactions of the N‐heterocyclic carbene‐parent phosphinidene adducts (IMes)PH ( 1 a ) and (IDipp)PH b with one equivalent copper(I) or silver(I) chloride afforded monometallic complexes [{(IMes)PH}MCl] 2 , M=Cu; M=Ag) [{(IDipp)PH}MCl] 3 M=Ag). Single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction analyis provided evidence for higher tendency ligand to form polynuclear structures bridging NHC‐phosphinid...

Two ruthenium–arene complexes with the generic formula [RuCl2(p-cymene)(NHC)] were readily obtained from natural, abundant, and renewable methylxanthine alkaloids used as N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) precursors. After optimization, known compound Ru-1 featuring 1,3,7,9-tetramethylxanthine-8-ylidene ligand was isolated in three steps 72% overall yield starting caffeine. Four needed to synthesize...

Glutathione transferases (GSTs) are involved in many processes in plant biochemistry, with their best characterised role being the detoxification of xenobiotics through their conjugation with glutathione. GSTs have also been implicated in noncatalytic roles, including the binding and transport of small heterocyclic ligands such as indole hormones, phytoalexins and flavonoids. Although evidence ...