fac-[Re(CO)3(dppz)] complexes of amido ligands generated in situ under basic conditions display an intense (ε = 16460 L mol-1 cm-1) absorption band between 500-700 nm which are assigned to an n(amido,RNH-) → π* (dppz) inter-ligand charge transfer band offering an extraordinarily low energy charge separating absorption with potential for imaging and energy application.

Divalent complexes of iron and cobalt with new, monoanionic tripodal amido-polyphosphine ligands have been thoroughly characterized, and XRD analysis reveals geometries that are distinct for this class of ligand.

The effect of heat on the reaction system of glycine glutamic acid and glycineleucine at 90 ± 5 0 C has been investigated in aqueous environment in the presence of montmorillonite clay with or without divalent cations (Ca 2+ , Cu 2+ and Mg 2+ ) under prebiotic wetting-drying cycles of primitive earth. The resulting products were analyzed by paper chromatography, UV as well as by High Performanc...

A series of three-coordinate norbornylpalladium amido complexes ligated by bulky N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands were prepared that undergo reductive eliminations to form the alkyl-nitrogen bond of alkylamine products. The rates of reductive elimination reveal that complexes containing more-electron-donating amido groups react faster than those with less-electron-donating amido groups, and...

Monomeric Cu(I) amido and thiolate complexes that are supported by the N-heterocyclic carbene ligand 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene (IPr) catalyze the hydroamination and hydrothiolation of electron-deficient vinylarenes with reactivity patterns that are consistent with an intermolecular nucleophilic addition of the amido/thiolate ligand of (IPr)Cu(XR) (X = NH or S; R = Ph, CH2...

An efficient catalyst based on artificial bionic peroxidase was synthesized for electrocatalysis. A poly(ethyleneimine)/Au nanoparticle composite (PEI-AuNP) was prepared and it was then linked to hemin via a coupling reaction between carboxyl groups in hemin and amino groups in PEI without the activation of a carboxyl group by carbodiimide. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy verifie...

A cDNA encoding a novel member of the cysteine proteinase family of proteins has been cloned from a human breast carcinoma cDNA library, by using a polymerase chain reaction-based cloning strategy. The isolated cDNA contains an open reading frame coding for a polypeptide of 321 amino acids that has been tentatively called cathepsin O. This protein presents all the structural features characteri...

Treatment of Cp(2)HfCl(2) with two equivalents of LiNH(2)BH(C(6)F(5))(2) in toluene solution yields Cp(2)Hf{NHBH(C(6)F(5))(2)}, which has been crystallographically characterised. The otherwise base-free [NHBH(C(6)F(5))(2)] complex is stabilised by an agostic interaction.

Methods for the deprotection of pinanediol and pinacol esters of various boronic acids via fluoroborane intermediates were evaluated. Treatment of the boronate esters with potassium hydrogen difluoride normally gives trifluoroborate salts; in the case of alpha-amido alkyl or o-amido phenyl boronate esters, aqueous workup gives difluoroboranes. Procedures for transformation of both trifluorobora...