Publications related to Inductive effect

On-Surface Assembly and Reactions of Organic Molecules in Ultra-High Vacuum

This thesis comprises the study of two types of 2D materials, those stabilized by non-covalent and those by covalent interactions. They are synthesized and studied on well-defined metallic surfaces in ultra-high vacuum (UHV). The self-assembly of terephtha ...

EPFL2016

Long-Range Bonding/Nonbonding Interactions: A Donor Acceptor Resonance Studied by Dynamic NMR

Long-range bonding interactions were evaluated using variable-temperature NMR spectroscopy and suitable 2'-CH2X-substituted phenylpyridines (X = Me, NMe2, OMe, F). It was found that the arylpyridyl rotational barriers were lower when electronegative atoms ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

A hybrid electron donor comprising cyclopentadithiophene and dithiafulvenyl for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Chenyi Yi

Two new photosensitizers featured with a cyanoacrylic acid electron acceptor (A) and a hybrid electron donor (D) of cyclopentadithiophene and dithiafulvenyl, either directly linked or separated by a phenyl ring, were synthesized and characterized. Both of ...

Beilstein-Institut2015

Structure-property relationships based on Hammett constants in cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes: their application to the design of a fluorine-free FIrPic-like emitter

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Rosario Scopelliti, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod, Julien Edouard Frey

While phosphorescent cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes have been widely studied, only correlations between oxidation potential EOX and Hammett constant sigma, and between the redox gap (Delta E-REDOX = E-OX-E-RED) and emission or absorption wavelength ...

2014

How to blue-shift phosphorescence color of iridium(III) complexes

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Rosario Scopelliti

We achieve a 20-58 nm (610-1890 cm (1)) blue-shift of the phosphorescence maximum of iridium(III) complexes (CN)(2)Ir(NN) of 1,10-phenanthrolines (NN) by modifying the cyclometalating 2-phenylpyridine ligand (CN = ppy) with an electron-w ...

2013

Rotational barriers of biphenyls having heavy heteroatoms as ortho-substituents: experimental and theoretical determination of steric effects

The free energies of activation for the aryl-aryl rotation of 17 biphenyl derivatives, bearing a heavy heteroatom (S, Se, Te, P, Si, Sn) as ortho substituent, have been measured by variable temperature NMR. These numbers, so called B values, represent a me ...

2012

Modulating the Steric, Electronic, and Catalytic Properties of Cp* Ruthenium Half-Sandwich Complexes with β-Diketiminato Ligands

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Andrew Douglas Phillips, Katrin Anne Thommes, Dominique Schreiber

Five different types of β-diketiminate ligands, bearing electron-donating to strongly electron-withdrawing substituents, were synthesized and used in the synthesis of Cp* ruthenium complexes (Cp* = η5-C5Me5). One series consists of complexes with a covalen ...

American Chemical Society2011

Mn2+ Complexes with 12-Membered Pyridine Based Macrocycles Bearing Carboxylate or Phosphonate Pendant Arm: Crystallographic, Thermodynamic, Kinetic, Redox, and 1H/17O Relaxation Studies

Lothar Helm, Eva Jakab Toth

Mn2+ complexes represent an alternative to Gd3+ chelates which are widely used contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging. In this perspective, the authors studied the Mn2+ complexes of two 12-membered, pyridine-contg. macrocyclic ligands bearing one pe ...

2011

Physico-chemical properties and photo-reactivity relationship for para-substituted phenols in photo-assisted Fenton system

César Pulgarin, Félicien Mazille

The reactivity of phenolic compounds can be drastically affected by the electronic nature of the substituting groups. In this work, the effect of physico-chemical properties on the reactivity via photo-assisted Fenton catalysis is reported for several para ...

2010

Position-flexible elaboration of halogenated heterocycles: Metalated species as key intermediates for synthesis

Halogens, in particular fluorine atoms, are favorite tools to fine-tune the chemical and biological properties of pharmaceutical or agricultural development products. At the same time, such an electronegative substituent can effectively assist the site-sel ...

2007

The reactivity of 2-fluoro- and 2-chloropyridines toward sodium ethoxide: Factors governing the rates of nucleophilic (het)aromatic substitutions

Thierry Rausis

The relative displacement rates of the halide substituent from 2-fluoro- and 2-chloropyridines by EtONa in EtOH at +25 Deg were assessed by competition kinetics. The 2-fluoropyridine reacts 320 times faster than the chloro analog. A CF3 group increases the ...

2005

Catechol functionalized polymers and method for preparing them

Karl Gademann

Described are compounds that are capable of forming adlayers, said compounds comprising at least one headgroup A, an optional linker B, a polymer C, a terminal group D and an optionally present crosslinking group R, wherein the headgroup A is a compound of ...

2005

New insight into the chemistry of allymetals

Eric Masson

The present thesis work provides new insight into the generation of allylmetal species and into their reactivity toward electrophiles. endo-Allylpotassiums are known to be more stable than their corresponding exo-isomers. The ring strain of methylenecycloa ...

EPFL2005