Showing papers in "Coordination Chemistry Reviews in 1997"

TL;DR: In this paper, an exhaustive review of calixarenes containing transition metals is presented, with a focus on synthetic aspects, to allow the reader to acquire a useful knowledge of the construction of transition metal complexes derived from calixarens.

TL;DR: It is concluded that in general it is unlikely that widely applicable rules will be sustained or be useful in the relationships between structure and activity of platinum based anti-cancer drugs.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the synthetic and structural aspects of the chemistry of saturated polyaza macrocyclic ligands bearing pendant coordinating groups attached to nitrogen, that have occurred since 1989, are reviewed.

TL;DR: The bridging behavior of deprotonated heterocyclic thiones is described in this paper, where anions are effective bridging ligands among binuclear, trinuclear, tetranuclear hexanuclear and polynuclear metallic species.

TL;DR: The tridentate ligand 2,2′:6′,2″-terpyridine is becoming increasingly widely used. as discussed by the authors provides a comprehensive review of the synthetic strategies used to prepare 2.2.6.2

TL;DR: The use of homochiral forms of chloro-bridged palladium (II) complexes containing orthometallated N, N -dimethyl(α-methylbenzyl)amines and related naphthylamines for the resolution of trivalent phosphines and arsines chiral at phosphorus and arsenic is reviewed in this paper.

TL;DR: A complete review of all aspects of organothallium(I) chemistry can be found in this paper, including the cyclopentadienyl and electronically related ligands, most notably the hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borate ligand.

TL;DR: A review on syntheses, chemical reactions, structures and bonding of phosphorane iminato complexes of main group elements is given in this paper, where the ligand group is not known in the ionic state.

TL;DR: In this article, the photochemical properties of ferric complexes are reviewed and the complexes are classified according to the bonding properties of their ligands into classes with unidentate, chelating and macrocyclic ligands.

TL;DR: Amino acids present metal ions with a choice of potential donor atoms as mentioned in this paper, and the sizes of potential chelate rings often play a crucial role in determining donor atom preferences, leading to spontaneous conversion of a metastable complex into a thermodynamically preferred linkage isomer.

TL;DR: In this article, the problem of stereochemical ambiguity in polymetallic ligand-bridged molecular assemblies has been examined and several approaches to the pre-determination of the stereochemistry of poly-nuclear assemblies incorporating Ru(II) and related centers have been proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of trends connected with an increase in metal-d or MLCT character in the lowest triplet states, can for instance be seen in transition energies, emission lifetimes, zero-field splittings, rates of spin-lattice relaxation, vibronic satellite structures, and changes of nuclear equilibrium.

TL;DR: Supersilyl t Bu 3 Si behaves as a very bulky, chemically inert group as mentioned in this paper, and it exists as an anion in supersilyl alkaline metals tBu 3 SiM.

TL;DR: In this article, the spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of two series of cyclometalated 2-phenyl-pyridinate, Ppy−, and 2-(2-thienyl)pyridine, Tpy− were studied.

TL;DR: In this article, a range of stable, volatile adducts of both alane and gallane are available, such as N -alkylmorpholine, and these have relevance in the binding of [H 3 A1NMe 3 ] to oxidised surfaces.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the nature of Cu(II)-thiolate bonding present in different metalloproteins, difficulties involved in the synthesis of Cu-II-thiolates and ways to surmount them are discussed.

TL;DR: Aspects of the chemistry of arene complexes of ruthenium and osmium in zero and +2 oxidation states are reviewed in this paper, with emphasis on the formation of isomeric endo-and exo-o-xylylene complexes of R.

TL;DR: The work of the Adelaide group on the pentanuclear ruthenium cluster carbonyl containing a reactive C2 ligand and on the synthesis, chemistry and electrochemistry of a variety of complexes containing C4 and C8 ligands is described in this paper.

TL;DR: A review of 1:1, 2:1 and 3:1 metal-to-ligand stochastic complexes of SalanH 2 ligands can be found in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the structure of NaBa3N and Na5Ba3n chains of condensed clusters are embedded in alkali metal. But they are not metalic. And they do not form stoichiometric compounds with alkali metals.

TL;DR: The structural features of complexes involving thiophosphorus and thioarsenic ligands bound to transition metal and Main Group elements are described in this paper, where intermolecular associations are discussed in the context of supramolecular chemistry.

TL;DR: The first σ-bonded organolanthanides were not fully characterized for some 20 years after the isolation of the first π-cyclopcntadienyls.

TL;DR: In this article, the coordination chemistry of periodate [IO 6 H 5− n ] n − and tellurate [TeO 6 H 6−n ] n− ligands with both main group and transition metal centers is described.

TL;DR: In this article, a brief overview of the main features of copper photochemistry, the importance of copper and its complexes in aquatic biota processes, as well as the role of the coordination compounds of copper compounds and their photochemical properties in environmentally interesting systems, is reviewed and analyzed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structures of chalcogen polycations are discussed by the application of basic electron counting rules according to the Zintl concept and are compared with already known cations.

TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of α-heteroatom stabilized carbocations is presented, with special emphasis on mono-, di- and tri-substituted acyclic carbocations as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The first organoelement derivatives with aluminium-aluminium, gallium-gallium and indium-indium bonds were synthesized eight years ago as mentioned in this paper, and up to now six different types of reaction have been found.

TL;DR: In this article, a review describes the history, back ground and recent progress on mixed complexes of phthalocyanines and porphyrins from 1984 to the present time, focusing mainly on the optical properties of the ground and excited states of three families of mixed complexes.

TL;DR: Bismuth(III) complexes with thiosemicarbazones and dithiocarbazonic methylester derivatives have shown promising activity against Helicobacter pylori in an agar dilution test as discussed by the authors.