BACKGROUND Catalysis has had a transformative impact on society, playing a crucial role
in the production of modern materials, medicines, fuels, and chemicals. Precious metals …

Conspectus Nickel complexes exhibit distinct properties from other group 10 metals,
including a small nuclear radius, high paring energy, low electronegativity, and low redox …

Organometallic chemistry and its applications in homogeneous catalysis have been
dominated by mononuclear transition-metal complexes. The catalytic performance and …

In contrast to the extensive but non-recyclable use of tetraalkoxydiboron (4) compounds as
stoichiometric reagents in diverse reactions, this article reports an atom-economical reaction …

Gold chemistry has developed extensively in the past decade, and a dozen good reviews
have been presented discussing this progress. Few however have paid close attention to …

The field of multimetallic catalysis is rapidly developing and some multimetallic complexes
catalyze organic transformations to yield the desired products in more efficient ways owing …

There is growing interest in the design of bimetallic cooperative complexes, which have
emerged due to their potential for bond activation and catalysis, a feature widely exploited …

One of the most challenging tasks in organic synthesis is to control selectivities, especially
switching the well-known selectivity to obtain new isomers that were previously inaccessible …

Ethylene/polar monomer coordination copolymerization offers an attractive way of making
functionalized polyolefins. However, ethylene copolymerization with industrially relevant …

Cluster complexes have attracted interest for decades due to their promise of drawing
analogies to metallic surfaces and metalloenzyme active sites, but only recently have …