the polarographic reduction of aromatic carbodiimides in anhydrous aprotic solvents goes through a carbene intermediate by a diffusion controlled process in two one-electron steps. the first step is the rate-determining step and converts the carbodiirnide to a radical anion (6) that reduces further by a fast one-electron step to a carbene dianion intermediate (7). this abstracts an oxygen, alon...

The polarographic reduction of aromatic carbodiimides in anhydrous aprotic solvents goes through a carbene intermediate by a diffusion controlled process in two one-electron steps. The first step is the rate-determining step and converts the carbodiirnide to a radical anion (6) that reduces further by a fast one-electron step to a carbene dianion intermediate (7). This abstracts an oxygen, ...

We present here an efficient method for hydroelementation reactions such as hydroamination, hydrothiolation, and hydrophosphorylation of the heterocumulenes carbodiimides, aryl isocyanates, isothiocyanates with anilines or thiophenols using a p-tolylsulfonylimide-supported dinuclear titanium complex. All were achieved in excellent yield under mild conditions within short reaction time. The prod...

We report herein the actinide-mediated insertion of E–H bonds (E 1⁄4 C, N, P, S) into various heterocumulenes including carbodiimides, isocyanates, and isothiocyanates. The precatalysts are prepared by a simple, one-pot procedure using readily available starting materials, and challenging insertions are achieved with excellent selectivity in short reaction times. Spectroscopic data are utilised...

Chemical ligation of oligonucleotides in double-stranded helices has been considered in its structural-kinetic aspect. A study was made of (i) two series of DNA duplexes with various arrangements of reacting groups in the ligation junction induced by mispairing or by alteration of furanose structure (the replacement of dT unit with rU, aU, IU, xU, dxT ones) and of (ii) eight synthetic water-sol...

A divalent ytterbium amidate 1 ([Yb3L6]·2C7H8 for short) was synthesized via amine-elimination of Yb[N(SiMe3)2]2(TMEDA) with an amide proligand N-2,6-diisopropylphenylbenzamide HL (L = 2,6-iPr2C6H3NC(O)Ph) and structurally characterized to be a trinuclear symmetric cluster. Further studies on the reduction of iPrN[double bond, length as m-dash]C[double bond, length as m-dash]NiPr by complex 1 p...

The phenalenyl unit has played intriguing role in different fields of research spanning from chemistry, material chemistry to device physics acting as key electronic reservoir which has not only led to the best organic single component conductor but also created the spin memory device of next generation. Now we show the non-innocent behaviour of phenalenyl unit in modulating the catalytic behav...