Transition metal catalyzed C C bond formations belong to the most important reactions in
organic synthesis. One particularly interesting reaction is olefin metathesis, a metal …

The first examples of organometallic derivatives of metal oxides appeared in a syncretic
fashion and were merely regarded as laboratory curiosities in a time where low oxidation …

Environmentally friendly oxidizing agents such as hydrogen peroxide or dioxygen can be
used today in catalytic versions of the almost one century old Baeyer–Villiger oxidation with …

Less than 20 years ago the entire class of organorhenium oxides was completely unknown,
but today an amazing wealth of these complexes exists. In the last decade many new facts …

Abstract Übergangsmetallkatalysierte C‐C‐Verknüpfungen gehören zu den wichtigsten
Reaktionen in der organischen Synthese. Eine interessante Reaktion aus dieser Klasse ist …

Parity violation (PV) effects in chiral molecules have so far never been experimentally
observed. To take up this challenge, a consortium of physicists, chemists, theoreticians, and …

A short overview on recent developments in ring closing metathesis (RCM) of 1, ω-dienes to
cycloalkenes is provided, with particular emphasis on applications to natural product …

Abstract The nucleophilic cyclocarbene 1, 3-dimethylimidazolin-2-ylidene (1) reveals
universal ligand properties in metal coordination chemistry: in addition to the well-known …

Abstract Methyltrioxorhenium (VII)(MTO, 1a) and several congeners 1b and 2a-d of formula
R ReO 3 and R ReO 3· L, respectively, qualify as olefin epoxidation catalysts of high …

Organorhenium (VII) oxides, most notably methyltrioxorhenium (MTO) and several of its
derivatives gained significant importance as extremely versatile catalysts for olefin oxidation …