Publications related to Lithium aluminium hydride

Well-Defined Ti Surface Sites in Ziegler-Natta Pre-Catalysts from 47/49Ti Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Treatment of Ziegler-Natta (ZN) catalysts with BCl3 improves their activity by increasing the number of active sites. Here we show how Ti-47/49 solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy enables us to understand the electronic structure of t ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Stephadiamine

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Baochao Yang, Guang Li

An asymmetric synthesis of (+)-stephadiamine has been accomplished featuring (a) an enantioselective dearomatizative Michael addition to generate a quaternary stereocenter; (b) a domino sequence involving reductive generation of nitrone from γ-nitro ketone ...

2023

Using Complex Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage and Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells for Electricity Production

Youngdon Ko

Hydrogen storage and utilization are the technologies to achieve carbon-neutral energy systems with renewable energy sources. Among the various materials that have been investigated, complex hydrides are a material exhibiting high gravimetric hydrogen dens ...

EPFL2023

A releasable disulfide-linked peptide tag facilitates the synthesis and purification of short peptides

Christian Heinis, Alessandro Zorzi, Yu Teng Wu, Jack Peter Christopher Williams

Combinatorial cyclization of hundreds to thousands of random linear peptides by structurally diverse chemical linkers offers access to large macrocyclic compound libraries. A bottleneck in the development of such libraries is the preparation of large numbe ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

An Enantioselective Cp x Rh(III)‐Catalyzed C−H Functionalization/Ring‐Opening Route to Chiral Cyclopentenylamines

Nicolai Cramer, Shouguo Wang

A chiral CpxRhIII catalyst system in situ generated from a CpxRhI(cod) precatalyst and bis(o‐toluoyl) peroxide as activating oxidant was developed for a C−H activation/ring‐opening sequence between aryl ketoxime ethers and 2,3‐diazabicyclo[2.2.1]hept‐5‐ene ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

A 1,3,2-Diazaphospholene-Catalyzed Reductive Claisen Rearrangement

Nicolai Cramer, Pavel Alexandrovich Donets, John Henry Reed, Solène Florie Miaskiewicz

1,3,2-Diazaphospholenes (DAPs) are an emerging class of organic hydrides. In this work, we exploited them as efficient catalysts for very mild reductive Claisen rearrangements. The method is tolerant towards a wide variety of functional groups and operates ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

CO2 and CO/H-2 Conversion to Methoxide by a Uranium(IV) Hydride

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Marta Falcone

Here we show that a scaffold combining siloxide ligands and a bridging oxide allows the synthesis and characterization of the stable dinuclear uranium(IV) hydride complex [K-2{U(OSi((OBu)-Bu-t)(3))(3)(mu-O)(mu-H)(2)}], 2, which displays high reductive ...

2019

Synthesis and Reactivity of 1-Allenyltriazenes

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Loïc Nicolas Jeanbourquin

1-Aryl-3,3-dialkyltriazenes have received considerable attention in the context of synthetic and medicinal chemistry. In contrast, the chemistry of other unsaturated triazenes is largely unexplored. The synthesis of 1-allenyltriazenes is described. This ne ...

2017

Stabilization of volatile Ti(BH4)(3) by nano-confinement in a metal-organic framework

Andreas Züttel, Elsa Callini

Liquid complex hydrides are a new class of hydrogen storage materials with several advantages over solid hydrides, e.g. they are flexible in shape, they are a flowing fluid and their convective properties facilitate heat transport. The physical and chemica ...

2016

Complex and liquid hydrides for energy storage

Andreas Züttel, Elsa Callini, Ping Chen

The research on complex hydrides for hydrogen storage was initiated by the discovery of Ti as a hydrogen sorption catalyst in NaAlH4 by Boris Bogdanovic in 1996. A large number of new complex hydride materials in various forms and combinations have been sy ...

Springer2016

Regioselective Nitration and/or Halogenation of Iridabenzofurans through Electrophilic Substitution

Andrew Francis Dalebrook

Regioselective electrophilic substitution reactions of the iridabenzofurans [Ir(C7H5O{OMe-7})(CO)(PPh3)(2)]-[OTf] (1) and IrCl(C7H5O{OMe-7})(PPh3)(2) (2) provide a convenient route to mononitro-, dinitro-, and mixed nitro-/halo- substituted derivatives. Tr ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Ketenimines from Isocyanides and Allyl Carbonates: Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of β,γ-Unsaturated Amides and Tetrazoles

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Mathias Mamboury, Guanyinsheng Qiu

The reaction of allyl ethyl carbonates with isocyanides in the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd(OAc)2 provided ketenimines through b-hydride elimination of the allyl imidoylpalladium intermediates. The insertion of the isocyanide into the p-allyl Pd co ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Rotational disorder in lithium borohydride

Andreas Züttel

LiBH4 has been discussed as a promising hydrogen storage material and as a solid-state electrolyte in lithiumion batteries. It contains 18.5 wt% hydrogen and undergoes a structural phase transition at 381K which is associated with a large increase in rotat ...

E D P Sciences2015

Synthesis of Triazenes with Nitrous Oxide

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Tina Riedel, Gregor Kiefer

Triazenes are valuable compounds in organic chemistry and numerous applications have been reported. Furthermore, triazenes have been investigated extensively as potential antitumor drugs. Here, we describe a new method for the synthesis of triazenes. The p ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Base-Catalyzed Intramolecular Hydroamination of Cyclohexa-2,5-dienes: Insights into the Mechanism through DFT Calculations and Application to the Total Synthesis of epi-Elwesine

Kurt Schenk

The base-catalyzed intramolecular hydroamination of 1-ethylaminocyclohexa-2,5-dienes is described. The transformation proceeds through isomerization of the cyclohexa-1,4-dienyl fragment into the corresponding conjugated 1,3-diene prior to the hydroaminatio ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014

Reactivity enhancement of oxide skins in reversible Ti-doped NaAlH4

Andreas Züttel

The reversibility of hydrogen sorption in complex hydrides has only been shown unambiguously for NaAlH4 doped with transition metal compounds. Despite a multitude of investigations of the effect of the added catalyst on the hydrogen sorption kinetics of Na ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Hydrogen storage: beyond conventional methods

Gabor Laurenczy, Martin Grasemann, Weijia Gan, Séverine Joëlle Moret, Andrew Francis Dalebrook

The efficient storage of hydrogen is one of three major hurdles towards a potential hydrogen economy. This report begins with conventional storage methods for hydrogen and broadly covers new technology, ranging from physical media involving solid adsorbent ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Thiol-Ene Click Chemistry as a Tool for a Novel Family of Polymeric Ionic Liquids

Jutta Christine Wandrey

Functionalized pyrrolidinium compounds, 3-((2-hydroxyethylthio)methyl)-1,1,4-trimethylpyrrolidinium and 3-((2-carboxyethylthio)methyl)-1,1,4-trimethylpyrrolidinium chlorides, are prepared from N,N-diallyl-N,N-dimethylammonium chloride by radical thiol-ene ...

2012

Squaric Acid Mediated Chemoselective PEGylation of Proteins: Reactivity of Single-Step-Activated alpha-Amino Poly(ethylene glycol)s

Harm-Anton Klok, Frederik Roman Wurm

The covalent attachment of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) to therapeutically active proteins (PEGylation) has become an important method to deal with the pharmacological difficulties of these polypeptides, such as short body-residence times and immunogenicity ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2012

Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalytic Application of a Nickel Pincer Hydride Complex

Rosario Scopelliti, Xile Hu, Jan Breitenfeld

The nickel(II) hydride complex [(MeN2N)Ni-H] (2) was synthesized by the reaction of [(MeN2N)Ni-OMe] (6) with Ph2SiH2 and was characterized by NMR and IR spectroscopy as well as X-ray crystallography. 2 was unstable in solution, and it decomposed via two re ...

American Chemical Society2012