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 …

Unique properties and emerging applications of carbolong metallaaromatics

M Luo, D Chen, Q Li, H Xia - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Aromatic compounds are important in synthetic chemistry, biomedicines, and
materials science. As a special type of aromatic complex, transition-metal-based …

Carbolong chemistry: a story of carbon chain ligands and transition metals

C Zhu, H Xia - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The construction of metal–carbon bonds is one of the most important issues of
organometallic chemistry. However, the chelation of polydentate ligands to a metal via …

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 …

The aromatic dianion metalloles

J Wei, WX Zhang, Z Xi - Chemical science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Metalloaromatic species are unique and important both experimentally and theoretically.
Significant progress has been made during the past few decades. New aromatic systems …

Synthesis and aromaticity of metallacyclopropene complexes

B Fu, W Bai, Y Li, W Jiang - Chemical Communications, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Metallacycloprop-1-ene and metallacycloprop-2-ene complexes are the smallest
unsaturated metallacycles, and have attracted continuing attention for their importance in …

Spiro metalla-aromatics of Pd, Pt, and Rh: synthesis and characterization

Y Zhang, J Wei, Y Chi, X Zhang… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Since the concept of aromaticity represents one of the most fundamental principles in
chemistry, the search for unprecedented and exciting aromatic systems, therefore, continues …

Synthesis and characterization of bi (metallacycloprop-1-ene) complexes

W Bai, LY Tsang, Y Wang, Y Li, HHY Sung… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In all previously reported metallacycloprop-1-ene or η2-vinyl complexes, the metal center
bears only one vinyl moiety. We have now successfully synthesized and structurally …

Radical metallacyclopropene: synthesis, structure and aromaticity

W Bai, L Li, Y Fu, J Tang, Y Zhao, Y Wang, Y Li - Dalton Transactions, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Metallaaromatics are an important class of aromatic compounds, showing diverse and
interesting aromatic properties. Radical rhenabenzofurans 1–3 with a fused …

Robust Alkyne Metathesis Catalyzed by Air Stable d2 Re(V) Alkylidyne Complexes

M Cui, W Bai, HHY Sung, ID Williams… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report in this communication the first example of catalytic alkyne metathesis reactions
mediated by well-defined non-d0 alkylidyne complexes. The air-stable d2 Re (V) alkylidyne …