Until recently, computational tools were mainly used to explain chemical reactions after
experimental results were obtained. With the rapid development of software and hardware …

Transition metal-driven small molecule activation is essential for the production of fuels and
chemicals or energy supply. The use of multimetallic catalysts, where two or more metal …

The catalytic conversion of CO2 into valuable chemicals and fuels has attracted increasing
attention, providing a promising route for mitigating the greenhouse effect of CO2 and also …

Organometallic catalysts have played a key role in accomplishing numerous synthetically
valuable organic transformations that are either otherwise not possible or inefficient. The use …

Conspectus Nickel pincer systems have recently attracted much attention for applications in
various organometallic reactions and catalysis involving small molecule activation. Their …

Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling and photoredox catalytic reactions has found widespread
utilities in organic synthesis. Redox processes are key intermediate steps in many catalytic …

Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are major environmental pollutants and to neutralize this long‐term
environmental threat, new catalytic methods are needed. Although there are biological …

In nature, water oxidation is catalyzed by Mn4Ca clusters in the oxygen-evolving complex
(OEC) of photosystem II (PSII), in which a manganese (V)-oxo species acts as an active …

Though Lewis acids (LAs) have been shown to have profound effects on carbon dioxide
(CO2) reduction catalysis, the underlying cause of the improved reactivity remains unclear …

The synthesis and characterization of (tBuPBP) Ni (OAc)(5) by insertion of carbon dioxide
into the Ni− C bond of (tBuPBP) NiMe (1) is presented. An unexpected CO2 cleavage …