Martin Albrecht

TL;DR: This review discusses the synthetic methodologies that are currently available for the preparation of platinum group metal complexes containing pincer ligands and especially emphasizes different applications that have been realized in materials science such as the development and engineering of sensors, switches, and catalysts.

TL;DR: The present account is mainly directed toward the impact of these still unusual metal-carbene bonding modes on the electronic properties and on the new catalytic applications that have been realized by employing such new carbene complexes.

TL;DR: Kinetic investigations have identified the coordination compound 207 as a common intermediate of Calkyl-H and the Caryl-Calkyl bond activation, and suggest steric factors to play a more dominant role than electronic differences in determining the C-C vs C-H selectivity.

TL;DR: This tutorial review compiles the advances that have been achieved in using transition metal complexes containing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands as components for materials by utilizing such complexes as antimicrobial and cytotoxic agents, as photoactive sites in luminescent materials, for self-assembly into liquid crystalline materials and metallosupramolecular structures.

TL;DR: The controlled and fully reversible crystalline-state reaction of gaseous SO2 with non-porous crystalline materials consisting of organoplatinum molecules is reported, which modifies the structures of these molecules without affecting their crystallinity.