New divalent lanthanoid and alkaline earth metal complexes bearing the 1,3-bis(diphenylphosphano)cyclopentadienyl ligand have been synthesised using redox-transmetallation protolysis (RTP) approach. From reaction of corresponding metal, diphenylmercury proligand C5H4(PPh2)2, compounds [M(η5-C5H3(PPh2)2-1,3)2(S)] (with M = Yb, S (thf)2 or Eu, Ca, Sr, Ba, dme) were isolated characterised by X-ray...

Alkali halides and alkaline earth halides are strongly ionic compounds that solidify as crystals. The name for the alkali elements (Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs) comes from the Arabic word alqili (ashes of the salt-wort plant that was once used as a source of sodium and potassium for making glass from sand). The name for the halogen elements (F, Cl, Br, I—and the rare radioactive element astatine) come...

Diazacrown ethers having two carbodithioate groups were synthesized, and their spectrophotometric properties were studied. Diammonium 1,4,10,13-tetraoxa-7,16-diazacycrooctadecane-N,N'-bis(carbodithioate) (DA18CC) and ammonium 1,4,10-trioxa-7,13-diazacycropentadecane-N,N'-bis(carbodithioate) (DA15CC) reacted with most heavy-metal ions through their two carbodithioate groups, and also reacted wit...

Two-dimensional (2D) electrides, emerging as a new type of layered material whose electrons are confined in interlayer spaces instead of at atomic proximities, are receiving interest for their high performance in various (opto)electronics and catalytic applications. Experimentally, however, 2D electrides have been only found in a couple of layered nitrides and carbides. Here, we report new ther...

The complex bonding environment of many ternary Zintl phases, which often results in low thermal conductivity, makes them strong contenders as thermoelectric materials. Here, we extend the investigation of A5In2Sb6 Zintl compounds with the Ca5Ga2As6 crystal structure to the only known rareearth analogue: Eu5In2Sb6. Zn-doped samples with compositions of Eu5In2 xZnxSb6 (x = 0, 0.025, 0.05, 0.1, 0...

We present a microscopic theory of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in metallic multiband ferromagnets, which accounts for all scattering-independent contributions, i.e., both the intrinsic and the so-called side jump. For a model of Gaussian disorder, the AHE is expressed solely in terms of the material's electronic band structure. Our theory handles systematically the interband-scattering cohe...

four different alkaline earth metal oxides i.e. mgo, cao, sro and bao were used as heterogeneous catalysts for biodiesel production from palm oil. effects of critical process variables i.e. reaction time, methanol to oil ratio and temperature were investigated. the results were then fitted to a historical design to study the analysis of variance (anova), to characterize interactions between var...

The reaction mixture of magnesium chloride with two equivalents of potassium anthranilate [K+ AnthÐ] in water gives on cooling to 0 ∞C a 60% yield of a precipitate which after drying in a vacuum has the composition [Mg(H2O)6](Anth)2 (1). Recrystallization from hot water affords an octahydrate identified as [Mg(H2O)6](Anth)2(H2O)2 (2) in a single crystal X-ray diffraction study. Contrary to find...