The chemistry of the p-block elements is a huge playground for fundamental and applied
work. With their bonding from electron deficient to hypercoordinate and formally hypervalent …

The field of olefin polymerization catalysis has experienced a phenomenal acceleration in
research activity over the past 5 years, with many academic and industrial research …

1.1. General Overview Polyolefinic materials, exemplified by polyethylenes (PEs),
polypropylenes (PPs), and ethylene/R-olefin amorphous copolymers, display many notable …

Purified LiAlH4 reacts with fluorinated alcohols HORF to give LiAl (ORF) 4 (RF=− CH (CF3)
2, 2 a;− C (CH3)(CF3) 2, 2 b;− C (CF3) 3, 2 c) in 77 to 90% yield. The crude lithium …

The quest for alternatives to cyclopentadienyl-based ligands has led to a recent renaissance
of N-centered donor ligands in various fields of organometallic and coordination chemistry …

A novel class of cyclometalated platinum (II) complexes—previously considered to be
inaccessible—was synthesized by an improved synthetic route utilizing ligands predicted by …

In coordination polymerization chemistry, the most active species are cationic transition
metals which bear vacant sites for monomer coordination. The steric and electronic …

Boron and aluminum are lighter Group 13 elements, found in daily life commodities, and
considered environmentally benign. Nevertheless, they markedly differ in their elemental …

The thermolysis of metal compounds incorporating amidinate-type ligands (RN (H) C (X)
NR, where R is any alkyl and X is an alkyl or an amido) show a great complexity and …

The base-free dimethyl scandium complex supported by the bulky β-diketiminato ligand
ArNC (t Bu) CHC (t Bu) NAr (Ar= 2, 6-i Pr2C6H3, 1) reacts with various equivalencies of the …