Martin Lutz

TL;DR: Cyclometalated ruthenium complexes of [Ru(C--arrow--N) (N--N-N)] configuration are a promising new class of molecular sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells, as a result of their broad and red-shifted visible absorption in comparison to the analogous [Ru--N-- N)2 type coordinative complexes.

TL;DR: Experimental and computational studies suggest a redox-noninnocent pathway wherein the redox"-active ligand facilitates intramolecular ligand-to-substrate single-electron transfer to generate an open-shell singlet "nitrene-sub substrate radical, ligand radical", enabling subsequent radical-type C-H amination reactivity with Pd(II).

TL;DR: Racemic Baylis-Hillman carbonates can be converted in the presence of a cata- lytic amount of a modified Cinchona alkaloid.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structures of neutral and ionic 4-cyanophenylpalladium(II) and methyl palladium (II) complexes containing bidentate phosphine ligands were investigated in solution and in the solid state.

TL;DR: In this paper, the metal-ligand cooperative activation of CO2 with pyridine-based ruthenium PNP pincer catalysts leads to pronounced inhibition of the activity in the catalytic CO2 hydrogenation to formic acid.