Axel Straube

TL;DR: The modular syntheses of C3-symmetric tris(ferrocenyl)arene-based tris-phosphanes and their homotrinuclear gold(i) complexes and the tri-oxidised benzene-based complex has been structurally characterised.

TL;DR: The borane adduct of 1, 1BH3, displays four accessible oxidation states, suggesting complexes of 1 to be intriguing candidates for redox‐switchable catalysis.

TL;DR: The rhodium-catalysed hydroformylation of 1-octene has been studied with ligand 5b and the crystal structures of 6a, 7b, 8a,b and 9b were determined by X-ray crystallography.

TL;DR: A facile two-step synthesis of bis(1-methylhydrazinyl)pyrimidine from pyridine-2-carbaldehyde and 2-diphenylphosphanylbenzaldehyde gave access to the new asymmetric ligand.

TL;DR: The redox-responsive nature of the complexes can be advantageously exploited in the catalytic ring-closing isomerisation of N-(2-propyn-1-yl)benzamide, where the benzene-based 2 : 3 ligand-to-metal complex has been shown to display multiple activity states depending on the degree of (reversible) oxidation in a preliminary trial.