Direct Observation of a Transition Metal Alkane Complex, CpRe(CO)2(cyclopentane), Using NMR Spectroscopy

S Geftakis, GE Ball - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1998 - ACS Publications
Experimentally, the existence of short-lived alkane complexes has been inferred from
detailed studies of CH activation processes with metals such as Rh3 and related hydrogen …

Stability and Thermodynamics of the PtCl2 Type Catalyst for Activating Methane to Methanol:  A Computational Study

J Kua, X Xu, RA Periana, WA Goddard - Organometallics, 2002 - ACS Publications
Stimulated by the report of high-yield, low-temperature catalytic conversion of methane to
methyl bisulfate (Periana et al., Science 1998, 280, 560), we studied the relative stability and …

On the Nature of Carbon− Hydrogen Bond Activation at Rhodium and Related Reactions

WD Jones - Inorganic chemistry, 2005 - ACS Publications
Over the past 20 years, substantial progress has been made in the understanding of the
activation of C− H and other strong bonds by reactive metal complexes in low oxidation …

Insight into binding of alkanes to transition metals from NMR spectroscopy of isomeric pentane and isotopically labeled alkane complexes

DJ Lawes, S Geftakis, GE Ball - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Alkane complexes of the type Cp 'Re (CO) 2 (alkane)(Cp '= cyclopentadienyl or (isopropyl)
cyclopentadienyl; alkane= isotopomers of n-pentane and cyclopentane) have been …

Reductive Elimination/Oxidative Addition of Carbon−Hydrogen Bonds at Pt(IV)/Pt(II) Centers:  Mechanistic Studies of the Solution Thermolyses of TpMe2Pt(CH3)2 …

MP Jensen, DD Wick, S Reinartz… - Journal of the …, 2003 - ACS Publications
Reductive elimination of methane occurs upon solution thermolysis of κ3-TpMe2PtIV (CH3)
2H (1, TpMe2= hydridotris (3, 5-dimethylpyrazolyl) borate). The platinum product of this …

Structure, bonding, and stability of a catalytica platinum (II) catalyst: A computational study

X Xu, J Kua, RA Periana, WA Goddard - Organometallics, 2003 - ACS Publications
Periana et al.[Science 1998, 280, 560] previously reported two catalysts for low-temperature
methane activation to methanol: PtCl2 (NH3) 2 and PtCl2 (bpym). It was shown that the …

Ultrafast UV pump/IR probe studies of C− H activation in linear, cyclic, and aryl hydrocarbons

MC Asplund, PT Snee, JS Yeston… - Journal of the …, 2002 - ACS Publications
The photochemical C− H activation reactions of η3-Tp* Rh (CO) 2 (Tp*= HB− Pz3*, Pz*= 3, 5-
dimethylpyrazolyl) and CpRh (CO) 2 (Cp= C5H5) have been studied in a series of linear …

Reaction mechanism of silicon− hydrogen bond activation studied using femtosecond to nanosecond IR spectroscopy and ab initio methods

H Yang, MC Asplund, KT Kotz, MJ Wilkens… - Journal of the …, 1998 - ACS Publications
The Si− H bond activation reactions by group VIIB, d6 organometallic compounds η5-CpM
(CO) 3 (M= Mn, Re; Cp= C5 H5) were studied in neat triethylsilane under ambient …

Inter- and Intramolecular Thermal Activation of sp3 C−H Bonds with Ruthenium Bisallyl Complexes

C Six, B Gabor, H Görls, R Mynott, P Philipps… - …, 1999 - ACS Publications
Complexes of type [{R2P (CH2) n PR2} Ru (2-Me-all) 2](2-Me-all= 2-methylpropenyl; R= Cy,
n= 1− 3, 5a− c; R= Me, n= 2, 6; R2=−(CH2) 4−, n= 2, 7) have been synthesized from the …

Homogeneous Conversion of Methane to Methanol. 2. Catalytic Activation of Methane by cis- and trans-Platin:  A Density Functional Study of the Shilov Type …

K Mylvaganam, GB Bacskay… - Journal of the American …, 2000 - ACS Publications
The C− H activation of methane catalyzed by cis-and trans-platin in aqueous solution has
been studied by density functional based computational methods. By analogy with the …