An apparatus has been developed for real-time monitoring of organometallic reactions under microwave irradiation using in situ Raman spectroscopy and its application for monitoring ligand substitution reactions of Mo(CO)6 demonstrated.

Technetium-99m cations are of interest because of their potential use as myocardial perfusion imaging agents. These species can undergo in vivo reactions which markedly affect their biodistribution patterns. Four such cases of reactions are presented and discussed: (1) simple ligand substitution; (2) metal centered redox processes; (3) reactions of coordinated ligands; (4) outer sphere associat...

The reaction of Hg(CF3CO2)2 with metalloporphyrins produces mercurated porphyrins regioselectively, the reaction, surprisingly occurring at the most hindered betaB-position; this behavior is in marked contrast to the usual electrophilic substitution reactions of porphyrins, whose reactions produce meso-substituted porphyrins; the obtained mercurated porphyrins are active to transition metal-cat...

This highlight review overviews our recent advances on enantioselective propargylic substitution reactions catalyzed by transition metal complexes including cooperative and hybrid catalysts for the last 15 years.

The mechanisms of substitution in transition metal complexes are reviewed with particular emphasis on recent developments. Strong support is available for a dissociative mechanism in formation reactions, in which the release of water from the metal ion controls the rate of entry of ligand. This generalization breaks down in the case of certain protonated ligands as well as multidentate ligands ...