Two alternative qualitative reactivity models have recently been proposed to interpret the
facile heterolytic cleavage of H2 by frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs). Both models assume that …

The formation of highly unsaturated small carbocycles is challenging and due to their high
ring strain such five-membered compounds are often not isolable. However, the …

In this account, examples of the influence of equilibrium and mesomerism/valence
tautomerism on reactions of selected group 4 metallocene complexes will be discussed …

Treatment of a [(trimethylsilylethynyl) alkenyl] ZrCp2 complex with Piers' borane [HB (C6F5)
2] resulted in the clean formation of the Zr/B complex [η2-(C6F5) 2B-C C-SiMe3] ZrCp2 (3) …

Formation and structural characterization of a five-membered zirconacycloallenoid - Dalton
Transactions (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C3DT51497H Royal Society of Chemistry …

Five-membered metallacycloallene compounds that are 2, 5-disubstituted 1-
zirconacyclopenta-2, 3-dienes were prepared from (E)-1, 4-bis (trialkylsilyl) but-1-en-3-ynes …

Density functional theory (DFT), absolutely localized molecular orbital (ALMO) analysis, and
quasiclassical trajectories (QCTs) were used to study the structure, barrier heights …

Hydrozirconation of phenylacetylene followed by a reaction with ((trimethylsilyl) ethynyl)
lithium gave the respective (σ-alkenyl)(σ-alkynyl) zirconocene complex 6a. Its treatment with …

Nucleophilic reactions by the C1 atom of 1-en-3-ynes toward organic electrophiles such as
ketones, nitriles and isocyanates, via their organozirconium species, were investigated …

We present a combined theoretical and experimental analysis of the carbon–carbon bond
character in two prototypical zirconocene complexes. The two cyclic seven-membered ring …