The known properties of alkyl and aryl derivatives of transition elements are reviewed, with particular attention to binary compounds of this type. Factors contributing to thermal stability of metal—carbon a-bonds are discussed and new contributions are presented dealing with: (1) chemistry of titanium(Iv) and titaniurn(n); (ii) metal—carbon bonds in N,N'-ethylenebis(salicylideneiminato) comple...

The interaction between lyophilized samples of ascorbic acid and Cu2+, Fe3+ or Mn2+ has been investigated by means of ESR spectroscopy. All of the three transition metal ions form complexes with vitamin C, but only in the case of Cu2+ and Fe3+ the interaction results in a reduction of the metal ions. Cu2+ and ascorbic acid seem to form 2 : 1 complexes with an equilibrium constant of about K = 1...

Supramolecular principles have been applied for improving the spin crossover activity of metal centers due to cooperative effects in solution. Thus, incorporation of alkyloxy tails at the phenyl group of Fe(sal2trien) 2a provides amphiphilic complexes Fe(sal-OR2trien) 2b-d (b, R = C6H13; c, R = C8H17; d, R = C18H37) comprising an apolar group for supramolecular organization and a polar headgrou...

Transition metals and their reactions are in general important in the environment, in technical processes (catalysis, extraction and purification of metal complexes) and in biology and medicine (biological electron transfer, toxicology and use of metal complexes as drugs). Moreover, nonessential metal ions are very often used in biological systems either for therapeutic application or as diagno...

The use of density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) to study the photochemistry of metal complexes is becoming increasingly important among chemists. Computational methods provide unique information on the electronic nature of excited states and their atomic structure, integrating spectroscopy observations on transient species and excited-state dynamics. In this contribut...

This account reviews transition metal-catalyzed C–C bond formation reactions using alkyl halides, which have rarely been used as carbon sources in conventional transition metal-catalyzed systems. In the reactions, ate complexes formed by the reaction of transition metals with a Grignard reagent play important roles as the active catalytic species. The reactions mentioned here are mechanisticall...

The development of new materials suitable for electrooptical studies has recently received a great deal of attention. One strategy deals with the preparation of zwitterionic molecules which are provided with a very high ground-state dipole moment [1, 2]. Michl and coworkers have presented in 1999 a tropylium ylide [12-C7H6-CB11H11] with a dipole moment of 11.25 D and a first hyperpolarizability...