Inorganic chemistry became a passion for me as a graduate student in the 1950s. It was
exciting to be part of the renaissance of the discipline, and I am pleased to have contributed …

The applications of metal‐based catalysts for the asymmetric synthesis of organic
compounds in supercritical fluids are reviewed. Much of the work discussed concerns …

Natural products have long been valuable sources of inspiration for drug discovery.
Unfortunately, the inherent limitations of direct semisynthetic derivatizations have become …

A Rh‐catalyst system based on the asymmetric ligand tBu2PCH2P (o‐C6H4OMe) 2 is
reported that allows for the hydroacylation of challenging internal alkenes with β‐substituted …

Two new bidentate pyrazolyl–triazolyl donor ligands, 4-((1 H-pyrazol-1-yl) methyl)-1-benzyl-
1 H-1, 2, 3-triazole, PyT (1a), and 4-((1 H-pyrazol-1-yl) methyl)-1-phenyl-1 H-1, 2, 3-triazole …

Cationic rhodium complexes with 1, 5-cyclooctadiene (cod) ligands are important
organometallic compounds that are useful as precatalysts; however, their solid-state …

The hydroformylation reaction is an increasingly important chemical synthesis route, as it is
one of the few reactions through which a single carbon atom can be added onto a long …

A series of new homoditopic ligands (14–17) containing two bis (pyrazol-1-yl) methane
moieties connected to either flexible (1, 6-bis (bis (pyrazol-1-yl) methyl) hexane, L6C (14); 1 …

The electronic and steric effects in the stoichiometric dehydrocoupling of secondary and
primary phosphine–boranes H3B· PR2H [R= 3, 5-(CF3) 2C6H3; p-(CF3) C6H4; p-(OMe) …

The complexes [Rh ((S)-BINAP)(COD)] BF41,[Rh ((S)-BINAP)(NBD)] BF42,[Rh ((R)-
BINAP)(COD)] OTf 3,[Rh ((R)-BINAP)(NBD)] OTf 4, and [Rh ((R)-BINAP)(COD)] BArF 5 were …