Applied Organometallic Chemistry

Novel water-soluble monotosylated ethylenediamines were synthesized from ethylenediamine and shown to act as ligands for ruthenium and iridium-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of aldehydes in neat water using sodium formate as the hydrogen source.

This paper reports an efficient synthesis of 4-heteroaryl-substituted triphenylamine derivatives via the palladium-catalyzed Suzuki reaction of heteroaryl halides with 4-(diphenylamino)phenylboronic acid in ethylene glycol under ligand-free and aerobic conditions. These derivatives are important structural motifs for the use in dye-sensitized solar cells and organic electroluminescence materials.

A cadmium complex complex constructed by the ligand: 1,3-dithiole-2-thione-4,5-dithiolato (DMIT) was synthesized, crystal structure was determined. Third-order nonlinear optical properties have been studied by Z-scan technique with 20 picosecond pulses at wavelength 1064 nm. Cation groups have shielding effect on the third-order nonlinear optical properties for the complexes that constructed by DMIT ligands.

MCM-41-supported tridentate nitrogen palladium(II) complex [MCM-41-3N-Pd(II)] is a highly active catalyst for the heterogeneous Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction of aryl bromides with arylboronic acids under air and can be reused at least 10 times without any decrease in activity.

Neutral, five-coordinate transition metal complexes of 2-(2-hydroxy-phenyl)-3-[1-(2-oxo-2H-chromen-3-yl)-ethylideneamino]-2,3-dihydro-1H-quinazolin-4-one (L) were synthesized and screened for their in-vivo anti-inflammatory and analgesic activity wherein the compounds have shown activity almost equipotent to the standard used in the study.

An eco-friendly method for C-N bond formation of allylic acetates using palladium associated with ligands in water leading to N-allylation was described.