Brian W. Skelton

TL;DR: The structure of the three title compounds have been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods at 295(1) K as mentioned in this paper, with a= 17.726(7), b= 8.572(3), c= 3.510(5)A, and Z= 4, the stuctural unit also being the [HgI2(py)2] molecule with similar geometry to that of (2); in particular, HgI 2.70 (1) and 2.3(4)°.

TL;DR: New PdBr(2)-bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) complexes derived from 4,7-dibutoxybenzimidazole and 5,6- dibutaldehyde-based complexes have been synthesized and structurally and spectroscopically characterized, showing much greater solubility and interesting structural characteristics dependent on the position of the butoxy substituents.

TL;DR: An investigation of the silver(I) nitrate/thiourea ("tu") system, exploiting the uniquely powerful access provided by the recently developed combination of mechanochemical synthesis coupled with vibrational spectroscopy, has resulted in the identification of solid adducts AgNO3/tu for x:y, which provide the basis for establishing a correlation between nu(AgS) and the Ag-S bond length d( AgS) for silver complexes involving the tu ligand.

TL;DR: Optically active versions of these sulfoximines give cyclopropanes in high enantiomeric purities in good to excellent yields.

TL;DR: The IR spectroscopic measurements on these compounds show that bands in the far-IR spectra provide a much more definitive criterion for distinguishing between bridging and terminal bonding than does an often-used empirical rule based on ν(CN) in the mid-IR, which leads to the wrong conclusion in some cases.