Frustrated Lewis pair chemistry of CO

DW Stephan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Transition metal species readily capture and react with CO as the metal can act both as an
acceptor and donor of electron density. In contrast, such a situation is less common in the …

Molecular Catalysts for the Reductive Homocoupling of CO2 towards C2+ Compounds

HQ Liang, T Beweries, R Francke… - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The conversion of CO2 into multicarbon (C2+) compounds by reductive homocoupling offers
the possibility to transform renewable energy into chemical energy carriers and thereby …

Carbon monoxide in main-group chemistry

S Fujimori, S Inoue - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
The usage of carbon monoxide (CO) as a C1 feedstock for carbonylation has been an
important subject of numerous studies for over a century. The chemistry in this field has …

New horizons in low oxidation state group 2 metal chemistry

B Rösch, S Harder - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the seminal report on Mg in the+ I oxidation state in 2007, low-valent complexes
featuring a MgI–MgI bond developed from trophy molecules to state-of-the-art reducing …

Reductive dimerization of CO by a Na/Mg (I) diamide

HY Liu, RJ Schwamm, SE Neale, MS Hill… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Sodium reduction of [{SiNDipp} Mg][{SiNDipp}={CH2SiMe2N (Dipp)} 2; Dipp= 2, 6-i-
Pr2C6H3] provides the Mg (I) species,[{SiNDipp} MgNa] 2, in which the long Mg–Mg bond (> …

Coordination and Homologation of CO at Al (I): Mechanism and Chain Growth, Branching, Isomerization, and Reduction

A Heilmann, MMD Roy, AE Crumpton… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Homologation of carbon monoxide is central to the heterogeneous Fischer–Tropsch process
for the production of hydrocarbon fuels. C–C bond formation has been modeled by …

Reductive activation of N 2 using a calcium/potassium bimetallic system supported by an extremely bulky diamide ligand

R Mondal, K Yuvaraj, T Rajeshkumar… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
An extremely bulky xanthene bridged diamide ligand (TCHPNON= 4, 5-bis (2, 4, 6-
tricyclohexylanilido)-2, 7-diethyl-9, 9-dimethyl-xanthene) has been developed and used to …

Anionic magnesium and calcium hydrides: transforming CO into unsaturated disilyl ethers

JS McMullen, R Huo, P Vasko… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis, characterisation and reactivity of two isostructural anionic magnesium and
calcium complexes is reported. By X‐ray and neutron diffraction techniques, the anionic …

Lithium dicyclohexylamide in transition-metal-free Fischer–Tropsch chemistry

M Xu, Z Qu, S Grimme, DW Stephan - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Lithium dicyclohexylamide (Cy2NLi) reacts with syn-gas or CO to generate transient
intermediates with carbene character, which are capable of reacting further with CO or H2 …

Room temperature defluorination of poly (tetrafluoroethylene) by a magnesium reagent

DJ Sheldon, JM Parr, MR Crimmin - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are pervasive in the environment. The largest single use
material within the PFAS compound class is poly (tetrafluoroethylene)(PTFE), a robust and …