1.1 Background Interest in ring-opening polymerization (ROP) reactions has gained
tremendous momentum in the course of the past two decades.(1) While the polymerization …

Aluminum alkyl complexes have very useful applications as catalysts or reagents in small
molecule transformations and as cocatalysts in olefin polymerization. This short review …

Neutral heavier group 13 metals aluminum, gallium, and indium have been utilized as Lewis
acid catalysts in various organic transformations ranging from classical organic reactions to …

The monomethylaluminum complexes 1 and 2, bearing pyrrolylpyridylamido as dianionic [−
NNN–] tridentate ligands with general formula [NNN] AlMe, were synthesized and tested as …

The dimethylaluminum compounds Al (CH3) 2 [(O-2-{(C6F5) N CH}-4, 6-R2C6H2)], R= H
(1) or cumyl (2), were synthesized and tested as initiators in the homo-and copolymerization …

The novel Al and Ga coordination compounds 4, 5, 7, and 8 of the type (NON) AlX (NON2–
={RNC6H4} 2O2–; 4, R= Cy, X= Me; 5, R= C5H9, X= OCH2Ph; 7, R= C6F5, X= Me) and …

Al complexes are widely used in a range of polymerization reactions (ROP of cyclic esters
and cationic polymerization of alkenes). Since the discovery in 1978 that an Al porphyrin …

The Ru–S bond in Ohki–Tatsumi complexes breaks oligomeric DIBAL-H structures into their
more reactive monomer. That deaggregation is coupled to heterolytic Al–H bond activation …

A series of bis (pyrrolidene) Schiff base aluminum complexes (1–7) were synthesized and
characterized by NMR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. All complexes were efficient …

A series of group 4 metal complexes 1–4 (1=(t-BuOS) 2Ti (Oi-Pr) 2; 2=(t-BuOS) 2Zr (Ot-Bu)
2; 3=(t-BuOS) 2Hf (Ot-Bu) 2; 4=(CumOS) 2Zr (Ot-Bu) 2) supported by two phenolate …