Metallaaromatic chemistry: history and development

D Chen, Y Hua, H Xia - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Since the prediction of the existence of metallabenzenes in 1979, metallaaromatic chemistry
has developed rapidly, due to its importance in both experimental and theoretical fields …

Recent development in the chemistry of transition metal-containing metallabenzenes and metallabenzynes

J Chen, G Jia - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Transition metal-containing metallabenzenes and metallabenzynes are organometallic
compounds derived from formal replacement of a CH group or a C atom in benzene and …

The chemistry of aromatic osmacycles

XY Cao, Q Zhao, Z Lin, H Xia - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Aromatic compounds, such as benzene and its derivatives, porphyrins, fullerenes, carbon
nanotubes, and graphene, have numerous applications in biomedicine, materials science …

Controlled activation of dipicolinyl-substituted propargylic alcohol by Ru (II) and Os (II) for unprecedented indolizine-fused metallafuran complexes

CF Yeung, HL Shek, SM Yiu, MK Tse, CY Wong - Organometallics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Indolizine-fused metallafuran and metal–quinolizinium complexes were synthesized from
reactions between dipicolinyl-substituted propargylic alcohol HC≡ CC (OH)(CH2 (2-py)) 2 …

Osmium (II)-Induced Rearrangement of Allenols for Metallafuran Complexes

HL Shek, KT Tam, SM Yiu, MK Tse, RH Morris… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Osmafuran complexes in the form of cis-[Os (L∧ L) 2 (C∧ O)]+(L∧ L= 1, 1-bis
(diphenylphosphino) methane (dppm) or 2, 2′-bipyridine (bpy); C∧ O=[C (CH3) C (CH3) …

Phosphonium‐Ring‐Fused Bicyclic Metallafuran Complexes of Ruthenium and Osmium

CF Yeung, LH Chung, SW Ng, HL Shek… - … A European Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metallafuran complexes with a fused five‐membered phosphonium ring were synthesized
from reactions between terminal ynones HC≡ C (C= O) R and cis‐[Ru/Os (dppm) …

cine‐Substitution Reactions of Metallabenzenes: An Experimental and Computational Study

T Wang, H Zhang, F Han, L Long… - Chemistry–A European …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Alkali‐resistant osmabenzene [(SCN) 2 (PPh3) 2Os {CHC (PPh3) CHCICH}](2) can
undergo nucleophilic aromatic substitution with MeOH or EtOH to give cine‐substitution …

Metallafurans and their synthetic chemistry

G He, J Chen, H Xia - Science Bulletin, 2016 - Elsevier
Based on isolobal analogy, the definition of metallafuran was described and its synthetic
chemistry was briefly summarized. In the structure of furan, when one of CH groups was …

Regioselective Cis Insertion of DMAD into Au–P Bonds: Effect of Auxiliary Ligands on the Reaction Mechanism

H Kuniyasu, T Nakajima, T Tamaki, T Iwasaki… - …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The cis insertion of dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD, 2) into the Au–P bond of Au
(SAr)(PAr′ 3)(1) occurs selectively at room temperature to give adduct 3, whose X-ray …

Reactivity study of a hydroxyl coordinated osmium vinyl complex OsCl2(PPh3)2[CH=C(PPh3)CHPh(OH)]

B Liu, QY Zhao, HJ Wang, BR Zeng, XY Cao… - Science China …, 2013 - Springer
We studied the reactivity of an osmium vinyl complex containing a coordinated hydroxyl
group OsCl 2 (PPh 3) 2 [CH= C (PPh 3)-CHPh (OH)](1) toward bidentate ligand 1, 4-bis …