Vanadium phosphorous oxides (VPO) catalyze the partial oxidation of butane to maleic anhydride. These VPO are commercially manufactured from solid vanadium oxides by treating them with a sequence of two processes. The first is the reflux of V2O5 with organic compounds, e.g. alcohols, to reduce the metal to the +4 oxidation state and also phosphoric acid as a phosphorous source to obtain the pre...

The heterometallic alkoxide catena-poly[[tetra-mu2-tert-butoxo-1:2kappa4O:O;1:3kappa4O:O-bis(tetrahydrofuran)-2kappaO,3kappaO-iron(III)dilithium(I)]-mu-bromo], [FeLi2Br(C4H9O)4(C4H8O)2]n, forms a one-dimensional chain through an a-glide. This conformation is achieved through the formation of Fe(III)/O/Li/O rings and Li-Br-Li bridges.

As we know sol-gel is one of the most important techniques for thin film preparation. In this paper, high transmission silica thin films have been prepared by dip-coating process from a new silicon-alkoxide solution. The prepared sol was stable for 45 days which is very important to characterize the coating process. The optical properties as a function of aging time, withdrawal rate, and he...

Silylstannylation of alkynes and allenes has been found to proceed by three-component coupling using a silylborane and a tin alkoxide in the presence of a Cu(I) catalyst. The regioselectivities are completely inverse to those of the conventional silylstannylation under palladium catalysis.

The activity of cerium alkoxide complexes supported by a Schiff base ligand was controlled using redox reagents during the ring-opening polymerization of L-lactide. The rate of L-lactide polymerization was modified by switching in situ between the cerium(III) and cerium(IV) species.

Alkoxide-functionalized N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) stabilise the potassium-imidazole-2-ylidene fragment against 1,2 alkyl rearrangement reactions; this allows the first structural characterisation of a potassium NHC complex, which reveals distorted and unusual bonding interactions between the imidazole ring and the potassium cation.

The N-heterocyclic carbene-copper alkoxide complex [(IPr)Cu(OtBu)] acts as a highly efficient catalyst for the hydrosilylation of carbon dioxide with a hydrosilane. The desired product, silyl formate could be isolated in multigram quantity under solvent free conditions. A copper formate catalyst intermediate was successfully isolated and structurally characterized, thus offering important insig...

Density functional theory calculations demonstrate that Al(III)-catalyzed conversion of glyoxal to glycolic acid proceeds via a 7-membered dual Lewis acid-hydrogen bonding activation transition state of the 1,2-hydride shift, rather than the previously proposed 5-membered metal-alkoxide chelate activation transition state.

An unusual [1,5]-Brook rearrangement of the lithium alkoxide of geminal bis(silyl) homoallylic alcohol is described. The unique steric and electronic effects of geminal bis(silane) were found to be crucial for promoting this long-range silyl migration, as well as for facilitating the subsequent γ/Z-selective addition of silyl allyllithium with carbonyl compounds to synthesize diverse configurat...