Metal-catalyzed CH activation/functionalization: The fundamentals

10.1016/j.molcata.2016.06.020

2016-09-04

An isolated CH bond in a molecule has a very low reactivity owing to the large kinetic barrier associated to the CH bond cleavage and the apolar nature of this bond. For this reason, the selective reactivity of such a non-functional group is under active stud...

Activation and selective oxy-functionalization of alkanes with metal complexes: Shilov reaction and some new aspects

10.1016/j.molcata.2016.08.020

2016-08-22

The quest of selective catalytic reactions for direct conversion of alkanes into valued products remains to be the most important task objective of modern chemistry and metal complex catalysis. Nowadays it is adopted that the formation of metal–alkyl intermed...

Insights on the CH Bond activation by Transition Metal Complexes from Groups 8–10 Bearing (P-N) Chelates

10.1016/j.molcata.2016.08.011

2016-08-18

CH bond catalytic activation/functionalization has been matter of great interest, since these transformations could establish new grounds from the synthetic perspective, and could serve to propose alternative and greener methods for the production of organic ...

The interplay of catalytic and gas-phase stages at oxidative conversion of methane: A review

10.1016/j.molcata.2016.08.008

2016-08-11

The effective functionalization of CH bond in methane, the main hydrocarbon component in Earth's crust and the most real source of energy for mankind in the nearest observable future, is undoubtedly can be regarded nowadays as one of the most important scient...

Mild oxidative C−H functionalization of alkanes and alcohols using a magnetic core-shell Fe3O4@mSiO2@Cu4 nanocatalyst

10.1016/j.molcata.2016.06.028

2016-06-28

A new hybrid Fe3O4@mSiO2@Cu4 material was constructed by loading a bio-inspired tetracopper(II) coordination compound [Cu4(μ4-O){N(CH2CH2O)3}4(BOH)4][BF4]2 (Cu4) onto the Fe3O4@mSiO2 core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) composed of a magnetite (Fe3O4) core and meso...

Cage-like metallasilsesquioxanes in catalysis: A review

10.1016/j.molcata.2016.06.016

2016-06-23

The review describes catalytic properties of a unique class of metal complexes—polycyclic cage-like metallasilsesquioxanes. Article is composed in retrospective manner and reflects the progress of the investigations in the field: from classic applications to ...

Homogeneous catalytic dimerization of propylene with bis (imino) pyridine vanadium (III) complexes

: Lang, Julian R.V.; Denner, Christine E.; Alt, Helmut G. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 2010 , vol. 322, # 1-2 p. 45 - 49

A series of new bis (imino) pyridine vanadium (III) complexes was synthesized. They were tested for the homogeneous catalytic dimerization of propylene after activation with MAO. The activity and selectivity depend on the ligand structure of the corresponding...

Silver (I) activated quaternization of tertiary amines by alkyl iodides: Overall analysis coupling homogeneous and heterogeneous processes

: Santos, M. Soledade C.S.; Barbosa, Ester F.G. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 2012 , vol. 356, p. 106 - 113

Kinetic data for the silver (I) activated homogeneous and heterogeneous quaternization of tributylamine by alkyl iodides in toluene is presented. Silver iodide was used as a solid catalyst. Solution and surface parameters were obtained applying the multistep ...

… nanoparticles supported on modified crosslinked polyacrylamide containing phosphinite ligand: A novel and efficient heterogeneous catalyst for carbon–carbon cross …

: Tamami, Bahman; Ghasemi, Soheila Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 2010 , vol. 322, # 1-2 p. 98 - 105

A novel palladium catalyst based on modified crosslinked polyacrylamide containing phosphinite ligand was synthesized and characterized. It exhibits excellent activity and stability in Mizoroki–Heck and Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions with different a...

Homocoupling of aryl Grignard reagents to form biaryls using ruthenium (III) complex,[RuCl (C 3 S 5)(H 2 O)(PPh 3) 2]

: Aparna; Bhat, Badekai Ramachandra Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 2012 , vol. 358, p. 73 - 78

Ruthenium (III) complex,[RuCl (C3S5)(H2O)(PPh3) 2] is an effective catalyst for the homocoupling of the aryl-Grignard reagents (ArMgX) to form biaryl derivatives. The catalytic methodology involves an in situ generation of the Grignard reagents. The method is...