Publications related to Tridentate ligand

Investigations about the Chemistry of Tetraarylethene- and Iridium-Based Luminophores

The work described in this thesis focuses on two classes of luminophores: tetraarylethene-based polymers and Ir(III) complexes with orthometalated ligands. Tetraarylethene-based polymers show aggregation-induced emission (AIE) and they are of interest for ...

EPFL2024

The acid-mediated isomerization of iridium(iii) complexes with cyclometalated NHC ligands: kinetic vs. thermodynamic control

Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Anastasia Gitlina

The isomerization of iridium(III) complexes with metalated N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands was studied. The fac isomers of complexes with 1-phenyl-3-methylbenzimidazolin-2-ylidene or 1-phenyl-3-benzylbenzimidazolin-2-ylidene ligands are transformed cl ...

2023

Colloidal-ALD Grown Hybrid Shells Nucleate via a Ligand–Precursor Complex

David Lyndon Emsley, Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Kevin Rossi, Michael Allan Hope, Snaedis Björgvinsdóttir, Ona Segura Lecina, Amrit Venkatesh

Colloidal atomic layer deposition (c-ALD) enables the growth of hybrid organic/inorganic oxide shells with tunable thickness at the nanometer scale around ligand-functionalized inorganic nanoparticles (NPs). This recently developed method has demonstrated ...

2022

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Studies of Low-Dimensional and Frustrated 3d Transition-Metal Oxides

Yi Tseng

3d transition-metal oxide materials with strong electron correlations and low dimensionality give rise to emerging exotic phases. Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) has developed as a powerful spectroscopic tool for probing the collective excitatio ...

EPFL2021

Investigating Tetrel-Based Neutral Frustrated Lewis Pairs for Hydrogen Activation

Shubhajit Das

Tetrel Lewis acids are a prospective alternative to commonly employed neutral boranes in frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry. While cationic tetrylium Lewis acids, being isolobal and iso(valence)electronic, are a natural replacement to boranes, neutral t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Insight into the Growth of Anisotropic CdSe Nanocrystals: Attachment of Intrinsically Different Building Blocks

Martinus Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar, Xiaopeng Huang

An in-depth understanding of the growth mechanism of nanocrystals (NCs) is of great significance for shape control of colloidal semiconductor nanostructures. In this study, we elucidate the formation mechanism of anisotropic CdSe NCs by systematically inve ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Functionalization of remote C(sp3)-H bonds enabled by copper-catalyzed coupling of O-acyloximes with terminal alkynes

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Ruben Omar Torres Ochoa, Zhaodong Li

Transition metal catalyzed Sonogashira cross-coupling of terminal alkynes with aryl(vinyl) (pseudo)halides has been successfully extended to alkyl halides for the synthesis of functionalized internal alkynes. The direct alkynylation of remote unfunctionali ...

Nature Research2020

Shape and size control of colloidal CdSe nanocrystals in the presence of carboxylate and alkylamine ligands

Xiaopeng Huang

In this thesis, we focus on investigating the shape and size evolution of colloidal CdSe nanomaterials in the presence of carboxylate and alkylamine surface ligands. By elaborating the combination of carboxylates and alkylamines with different hydrocarbon ...

EPFL2019

Fine-tuning the coordination atoms of copper redox mediators: an effective strategy for boosting the photovoltage of dye-sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Chong Liu, Mei Wang

Natural systems have marvelously utilized copper complexes featuring sulfur-coordinating ligands, known as blue copper proteins, as efficient electron-transfer mediators in biological processes. Copper complexes with sulfur-coordinating ligands have been a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

CO2 as hydrogen vector - Transition metal diamine catalysts for selective HCOOH dehydrogenation

Gabor Laurenczy, Cornel Fink

The homogeneous catalytic dehydrogenation of formic acid in aqueous solution provides an efficient in situ method for hydrogen production, under mild conditions, and at an adjustable rate. We synthesized a series of catalysts with the chemical formula [Cp* ...

2017

Synergistic effect of carboxylic and amine ligands on the synthesis of CdSe nanocrystals

Martinus Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar

We demonstrate the drastic improvement in absorbance and photoluminescence (UV-PL) of CdSe nanocrystals (NCs) upon adding both a carboxylic acid and an amine ligand to the cadmium acetate green chemistry source. We combined carboxylate complexes of lauric ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Synthesis and spectroscopy of anionic tridentate benzimidazole-pyridine carboxylate and tetrazolate chromophore ligands

Svetlana Eliseeva

We report on seven new anionic benzimidazole-pyridine carboxylate and tetrazolate tridentate (NNO)-N-boolean AND-O-boolean AND and (NNN)-N-boolean AND-N-boolean AND ligands that are modified with chromophore (phenyl, biphenyl, naphthyl) and solubilizing gr ...

Elsevier2015

Lanthanide(II) Complexes Supported by N,O-Donor Tripodal Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, and Ligand-Dependent Redox Behavior

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Julie Renée Michelle Andrez

The preparation and characterization of a series of complexes of the Yb and Eu cations in the oxidation state II and III with the tetradentate N,O-donor tripodal ligands (tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine (TPA), BPA(-) (HBPA=bis(2-pyridylmethyl)(2-hydroxybenzyl)a ...

2015

Intrachain antiferromagnetic exchange in a 1D branched-chain built of two different copper(II) centres interlinked by end-on azido and phenoxo bridges: electron density map, electrochemical and magnetic properties

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Kurt Schenk, Philip Pattison, Krunoslav Prsa, Arash Alahgholipour Omrani, Noore Elahi Shaik

A 1D, end-on azido- and phenoxo-bridged, coordination polymer, Cu-2(mu-NAPPR)(mu(1,1)-N-3)(2) (1), (NAPPR(2-) = 1,3-bis(naphthylideneimino) propane dianion), was synthesized and characterized. The 1D branched-chain is built of two types of slightly di ...

2015

Strategy to Optimize the Biological Activity of Arene Ruthenium Metalla-Assemblies

Paul Joseph Dyson, Tina Riedel

Three new dinuclear arene ruthenium metalla-clips of the general formula [(p-cymene)(2)Ru2Cl2(mu-L)] have been prepared from {(p-cymene)(2)Ru2Cl2(p-Cl)(2)] and H2L organic linkers (H2La = diethyl-1,2-diazeneclicarboxylate, H2Lb = N,N'-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)ox ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Steric and electronic control over the structural diversity of N-(n-pyridinyl) diphenylphosphinic amides (n = 2 and 4) as difunctional ligands in triphenyltin(IV) adducts

Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

Two triphenyltin(IV) adducts of difunctional ligands, N-(n-pyridinyl) diphenylphosphinic amide (n = 2 and 4), have been synthesized and characterized by H-1, P-31, Sn-119 NMR and IR spectroscopy. The spectroscopic properties of the complexes were compared ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Benign synthesis of the unsymmetrical ligand N-(quinolin-8-yl) pyrazine-2-carboxamide. Preparation, electrochemistry, antibacterial activity, and crystal structures of Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes

Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

Hqpzc has been synthesized by a highly efficient procedure using the ionic liquid TBAB as an environmentally benign reaction medium. [Cu(qpzc)(OAc)]H2O (1) and [Zn(qpzc)(OAc)(H2O)] (2), complexes of the deprotonated ligand, qpzc [qpzc ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2013

Reactivity and Biological Properties of a Series of Cytotoxic PtI2(amine)(2) Complexes, Either cis or trans Configured

Angela Casini

Six diiodido-diamine platinum(II) complexes, either cis or trans configured, were prepared, differing only in the nature of the amine ligand (isopropylamine, dimethylamine, or methylamine), and their antiproliferative properties were evaluated against a pa ...

2012

Dynamic Cellular Uptake of Mixed-Monolayer Protected Nanoparticles

Francesco Stellacci, Randy Patrick Carney, Tamara Michael Carney, Marie Mueller

Nanoparticles (NPs) are gaining increasing attention for potential application in medicine; consequently, studying their interaction with cells is of central importance. We found that both ligand arrangement and composition on gold nanoparticles play a cru ...

American Vacuum Society2012

Cobalt Electrolyte/Dye Interactions in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Combined Computational and Experimental Study

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Filippo de Angelis

We report a combined experimental and computational investigation to understand the nature of the interactions between cobalt redox mediators and TiO2 surfaces sensitized by :ruthenium and organic dyes, and their impact on. the performance of the correspon ...

American Chemical Society2012