UNIVERSITY OF TURKU Depaartment of Chemistry/Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Golubev, Oleg: Recognition of nucleic acids by metal ion complexes Doctoral thesis, 144 p. Laboratory of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology March 2016 Metal-ion-mediated base-pairing of nucleic acids has attracted considerable attention during the past decade, since it offers means to expand the genetic...

Aqua-coordinated sandwich-type polyoxometalates (POMs), {[WZnTM2(H2O)2](ZnW9O34)2} n- (TM=RhIII, PdII, and PtII), catalyze olefin epoxidation with hydrogen peroxide and have been well established, and they present an advance toward the utilization of olefins. To elucidate the epoxidation mechanism, we systematically performed density functional calculations. The reaction proceeds through a two-...

Important applications of the NiII, PdII and PtII complexes [M(Hdmg)2] (H2dmg = dimethylglyoxime) stem from their metal...metal stacked virtually insoluble aggregates. Given virtual insolubility materials, we postulated that rare reports on dissolved species in solution do not represent monomolecular but oligomers. We thus studied structural spectral properties entities these compounds using de...

The binuclear title complex, di-μ-iodido-bis(-{2-[(benzylamino-κN)meth-yl]phenyl-κC1}palladium(II)), [Pd2I2(C14H14N)2], was prepared by reaction of [Pd{C6H4(CH2NHCH2Ph)-2}(μ-OAc)]2 with NaI. It crystallizes with one discrete mol-ecule in the asymmetric unit. The mol-ecule presents an iodide-bridged dimeric structure with a cisoid arrangement with respect to the C,N-cyclo-palladated ligands. Bot...