Urban transportation in the next few decades will shift worldwide toward electrification and
automation, with the final aim of increasing energy efficiency and safety for passengers …

Catalytic processes are of paramount importance in the chemical industry. Homogeneous
catalysts are of great interest for synthesizing fine-chemical/specialty chemical …

Heterobimetallic Cu–Fe and Zn–Fe complexes catalyze C–H borylation, a transformation
that previously required noble metal catalysts. The optimal catalyst,(IPr) Cu-FeCp (CO) 2 …

Chiral molecules, such as alcohols, are vital for the manufacturing of fine chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, fragrances, and novel materials. These molecules need to …

Esterification in an aqueous micellar medium is catalyzed by a commercially available
lipase in the absence of any co-factors. The presence of only 2 wt% designer surfactant …

Developing earth-abundant, non-platinum metal catalysts for high-value chemical
transformations is a critical challenge to contemporary chemical synthesis. Dearomatization …

While suppressing the decomposition of trichloromethyl carbanions (generated from CHCl3
using the LiOH base) to carbon monoxide and their participation in transmetallation and …

A nickel bis (diphosphine) complex containing pendant amines in the second coordination
sphere,[Ni (PCy2N t-Bu2) 2](BF4) 2 (PCy2N t-Bu2= 1, 5-di (tert-butyl)-3, 7-dicyclohexyl-1, 5 …

Metallic binary compounds have emerged in recent years as highly active and stable
electrocatalysts toward the hydrogen evolution reaction. In this work, the origin of their high …

Conspectus Rational design of molecular catalysts requires a systematic approach to
designing ligands with specific functionality and precisely tailored electronic and steric …