N-heterocyclic carbene adducts of main group elements and their use as ligands in transition metal chemistry

A Doddi, M Peters, M Tamm - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) are nowadays ubiquitous and indispensable in many
research fields, and it is not possible to imagine modern transition metal and main group …

Recent advances in organo-lanthanides and actinides mediated hydroaminations

H Liu, S Saha, MS Eisen - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydroamination, an atom-economic one-step reaction that refers to the addition of an NH
unit into CC/CX multiple bonds, provides an ideally efficient methodology to construct C–N …

From chemical curiosities and trophy molecules to uranium-based catalysis: developments for uranium catalysis as a new facet in molecular uranium chemistry

DR Hartline, K Meyer - Jacs Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Catalysis remains one of the final frontiers in molecular uranium chemistry. Depleted
uranium is mildly radioactive, continuously generated in large quantities from the production …

Zinc Catalyzed Hydroelementation (HE; E= B, C, N, and O) of Carbodiimides: Intermediates Isolation and Mechanistic Insights

RK Sahoo, AG Patro, N Sarkar, S Nembenna - Organometallics, 2023 - ACS Publications
The conjugated bis-guanidinate (CBG) supported zinc hydride,[{LZnH} 2; L={(ArHN)(ArN)-
C═ N–C═(NAr)(NHAr); Ar= 2, 6-Et2-C6H3}](1)(pre)-catalyzed addition of E–H (E= B, C, N …

Against All Odds, Uranium and Thorium Iminato Complexes Enable the Cleavage of C═ O Bonds in Isocyanates

K Makarov, I Ritacco, N Fridman, L Caporaso… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The catalytic activity of actinide-based catalysts is presented herein for the hydroboration
and deoxygenation of isocyanates with pinacolborane (HBpin). A modified class of ligand …

Recent developments in highly basic N-heterocyclic iminato ligands in actinide chemistry

S Revathi, P Raja, S Saha, MS Eisen… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last decade, major conceptual advances in the chemistry of actinide molecules and
materials have been made to demonstrate their distinct reactivity profiles as compared to …

Catalytic recycling of a Th–H bond via single or double hydroboration of inactivated imines or nitriles

S Saha, MS Eisen - Acs Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
The catalytic activity of the metallacycle thorium amide [(Me3Si) 2N] 2Th [κ2–(N, C)–CH2Si
(CH3) 2N (SiMe3)](Th1) is presented for the selective dihydroboration of nitriles (—C≡ N) …

Metal-catalysed reactions enabled by guanidine-type ligands

XY Cui, CH Tan, D Leow - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Guanidines, which exist widely in nature, have been frequently utilised as strong Brønsted
bases in organic chemistry. As ligands, guanidines can have different coordination modes …

Catalytic 1, 2-regioselective dearomatization of N-heteroaromatics via a hydroboration

H Liu, M Khononov, MS Eisen - ACS Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
The thorium methyl and hydride complex (C5Me5) 2ThMe2 and [(C5Me5) 2Th (H)(μ-H)] 2
catalyzed highly 1, 2-regioselective dearomatization of pyridines via a hydroboration …

Organo-f-Complexes for Efficient and Selective Hydroborations

H Liu, MS Eisen - Synthesis, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
Organo-f-complexes catalyzing small molecule transformations have been a hot topic in the
past few years. Compared to other transformations, the hydroboration of C= X (X= C, N, O) …