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 …

Aromaticity of metallabenzenes and related compounds

I Fernández, G Frenking, G Merino - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The concept of aromaticity was initially introduced in chemistry to account for the stability,
reactivity, molecular structures, and other properties of many unsaturated organic …

Selective difunctionalization of unactivated aliphatic alkenes enabled by a metal–metallaaromatic catalytic system

FH Cui, Y Hua, YM Lin, J Fei, LH Gao… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The design of organometallic catalysts is crucial in the development of catalytic reactions.
Herein, we describe a heterometallic [Os-Cu] complex with the characteristics of bimetallics …

Recent advances in metallaaromatic chemistry

BJ Frogley, LJ Wright - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Metallaaromatics can be broadly defined as aromatic compounds in which one of the ring
atoms is a transition metal. The metallabenzenes are one important class of these …

Metalla-aromatics: planar, nonplanar, and spiro

Y Zhang, C Yu, Z Huang, WX Zhang, S Ye… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The concept of aromaticity is one of the most fundamental principles in
chemistry. It is generally accepted that planarity is a prerequisite for aromaticity, and typically …

Isolation of an Annulated 1, 4‐Distibabenzene Diradicaloid

H Steffenfauseweh, D Rottschäfer… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The first 1, 4‐distibabenzene‐1, 4‐diide compound [(ADC) Sb] 2 (5) based on an
anionic dicarbene (ADC)(ADC= PhC {N (Dipp) C} 2, Dipp= 2, 6‐iPr2C6H3) is reported as a …

Heavier element-containing aromatics of [4 n+ 2]-electron systems

K Ota, R Kinjo - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
While the implication of the aromaticity concept has been dramatically expanded to date
since its emergence in 1865, the classical [4n+ 2]/4n-electron counting protocol still plays an …

Annulated 1, 4-disilabenzene-1, 4-diide and dihydrogen splitting

F Ebeler, YV Vishnevskiy, B Neumann… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The isolation of silicon analogues of phenyl anions such as (C6H5)− and (C6H4) 2–is
challenging owing to their extremely high reactivity associated with their silylene character …

Planar Möbius aromatic pentalenes incorporating 16 and 18 valence electron osmiums

C Zhu, M Luo, Q Zhu, J Zhu, PR Schleyer… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Aromaticity, a highly stabilizing feature of molecules with delocalized electrons in closed
circuits, is generally restricted to 'Hückel'systems with 4 n+ 2 mobile electrons. Although the …

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 …