The misfit layered Bi2A2Co2O8 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba) compounds experience an insulator to metal transition as A's ionic radius increases. This feature is contradictory to the conventional wisdom that larger lattice constant favors insulating rather than metallic state, and is also difficult to be reconciled using the Anderson weak localization theory. In this paper, we show from the first-principles ...

Biomedical inorganic chemistry is a relative new research field and investigates possible applications of metal containing agents which display biological activities!,2. An important part of these studies deals with compounds that display antitumor properties. The most successful anticancer drug to date containing a transition metal is cisplatin, [Pt(NH3)2Ch]3. The bioactivity of organometallic...

1. Definition of inorganometallic vs. organometallic chemistry 2. Inorganometallic Compounds Containing Transition Metal (TM) – Main Group Metal (E) Bond – Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity 2.1. Inorganometallic Complexes of TM with Group 13 Elements 2.1.1. Inorganometallic Complexes of TM with Boron 2.1.2. Inorganometallic Complexes of TM with Heavier Elements of Group 13 2.2. Inorganometall...

The direct addition of ortho C-H bonds in various aromatic compounds such as ketones, esters, imines, imidates, nitriles, and aldehydes to olefins and acetylenes can be achieved with the aid of transition metal catalysts. The ruthenium catalyzed reaction is usually highly efficient and useful as a general synthetic method. The coordination to the metal center by a heteroatom in a directing grou...