Publications related to Dicobalt octacarbonyl

Tandem Hydroformylation-Aldol Condensation Reaction Enabled by Zn-MOF-74

The tandem hydroformylation-aldol condensation (tandem HF-AC) reaction offers an efficient synthetic route to the synthesis of industrially relevant products. The addition of Zn-MOF-74 to the cobalt-catalyzed hydroformylation of 1-hexene enables tandem HF- ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Electro- and photochemical H-2 generation by Co(ii) polypyridyl-based catalysts bearing ortho-substituted pyridines

Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Albert Ruggi, Vincent Artero, Fiorella Lucarini

Cobalt(II) complexes featuring hexadentate amino-pyridyl ligands have been recently discovered as highly active catalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER), whose high performance arises from the possibility of assisting proton transfer processes v ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

From Alkyl Halides to Ketones: Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Carbonylation Utilizing Ethyl Chloroformate as the Carbonyl Source

Xile Hu, Renyi Shi

Ketones are an important class of molecules in synthetic and medicinal chemistry. Rapid and modular synthesis of ketones remains in high demand. Described here is a nickel-catalyzed three-component reductive carbonylation method for the synthesis of dialky ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Perovskite Solar Cells Based on Oligotriarylamine Hexaarylbenzene as Hole-Transporting Materials

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Mona Shasti

A cobalt-catalyzed cyclotrimerization of bis(aryl)alkyne is used as an innovative tool to obtain hole-transport materials (HTMs). The novel HTM containing six units of oligotriarylamine (HAB1), characterized by UV-vis, cyclic voltammetry, DFT, and thermogr ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Expedited Screening of Active and Regioselective Catalysts for the Hydroformylation Reaction

Matthew Wodrich, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Michael Markus Busch

The discovery of new homogeneous catalysts that preferentially form one product over another in regio- or enantioselective chemical reactions has traditionally been the province of experimental chemists. Today, computational-based approaches have carved an ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2018

An Easily Accessed Nickel Nanoparticle Catalyst for Alkene Hydrosilylation with Tertiary Silanes

Xile Hu, Ivan Buslov, Fang Song

The first efficient and non-precious nanoparticle catalyst for alkene hydrosilylation with commercially relevant tertiary silanes has been developed. The nickel nanoparticle catalyst was prepared in situ from a simple nickel alkoxide precatalyst Ni((OBu)-B ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

A Functional Model of [Fe]-Hydrogenase

Rosario Scopelliti, Xile Hu, Matthew Wodrich, Tao Xu, Simona Mazza

[Fe]-Hydrogenase catalyzes the hydrogenation of a biological substrate via the heterolytic splitting of molecular hydrogen. While many synthetic models of [Fe]-hydrogenase have been prepared, none yet are capable of activating H-2 on their own. Here, we re ...

American Chemical Society2016

Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory-Organometallic Anticancer Compounds

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Emilia Paunescu, Mylène Soudani, Sarah Mcarthur

Compounds that combine metal-based drugs with covalently linked targeted organic agents have been shown, in some instances, to exhibit superior anticancer properties compared to the individual counterparts. Within this framework, we prepared a series of or ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

High efficiency Porphyrin Sensitized Mesoscopic Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Chenyi Yi, Joël Teuscher, Fabrizio Giordano

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) represents a reliable technology, ready for the market and able to compete with silicon solar cells for specific fields of application. Porphyrin dyes allow reaching high power conversion efficiency in conjunction with cob ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Nickel(0)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Annulations of Alkynes and Arylenoates Enabled by a Chiral NHC Ligand: Efficient Access to Cyclopentenones

Nicolai Cramer, Pavel Alexandrovich Donets, Joachim Sven Ernst Ahlin

Cyclopentenones are versatile structural motifs of natural products as well as reactive synthetic intermediates. The nickel-catalyzed reductive [3+2] cycloaddition of alpha,beta-unsaturated aromatic esters and alkynes constitutes an efficient method for th ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

The Intricate Chemistry of Cobalt(II) Halides and Bis(diphenylphosphanyl)ethane

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Heron Vrubel, Gregor Kiefer

Phosphane complexes of the putative formula [CoX2(dppe)] [X = Cl, Br, I; dppe = bis(diphenylphosphanyl)ethane] are frequently used catalyst precursors in cobalt-catalyzed reactions. Despite their widespread use, these complexes have not been structurally c ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Sub-Micron Nano-Composite CoC Hall Sensors by Focused Electron-Beam Induced Deposition for Microbead Detection

Laurent Bernau

In order to track single superparamagnetic microbeads serving as markers in biomolecular assays, high-sensitivity, sub-micron magnetic sensors which can be integrated onto Lab-on-a-chip platforms are needed. This thesis studies the realization and characte ...

EPFL2011

Synthesis and Reactivity of Iron Acyl Complexes Modeling the Active Site of [Fe]-Hydrogenase

Rosario Scopelliti, Xile Hu, Dafa Chen

A [FeIIFeII] dithiolate complex containing acyl and carbonyl ligands was synthesized. The diiron complex reacted with phosphine, cyanide, isocyanide, and CO to give monomeric FeII complexes reproducing the first coordination sphere of the active site of [F ...

2010

Reactions of Alkynes with [RuCl(cyclopentadienyl)] Complexes: The Important First Steps

Rosario Scopelliti, Ursula Röthlisberger, Kay Severin, Euro Solari, Basile Curchod, Pablo Campomanes Ramos, Barnali Dutta

Cyclopentadienyl-ruthenium half-sandwich complexes with 2-bound alkyne ligands have been suggested as catalytic intermediates in the early stages of Ru-catalyzed reactions with alkynes. We show that electronically unsaturated complexes of the formula [RuCl ...

2010

Novel Ruthenium Complexes with Sterically Demanding Cyclopentadienyl Ligands : Syntheses, Reactivity and Catalytic Applications

Barnali Dutta

Investigations of ruthenium halfsandwich complexes have mostly focused on Cp and Cp* based derivatives due to the availability of easily accessible starting materials. However, it is interesting to have complexes with substituted cyclopentadienyl ligands i ...

EPFL2010

Co(III) complexes of Me-salpn and Me-salbn and the ring size effect on the coordination modes and electrochemical properties: The crystal structures of trans-[Co-III(Me-salpn)(py)(2)]PF6 and cis-alpha-[Co-III(Me-salbn)(4-Mepy)(2)]BPh4 center dot 4-Mepy

Kurt Schenk

The synthesis and characterization of a series of cobalt(III) complexes of the general type Co(N2O2)(L-2) are described. The N2O2 Schiff base ligands used are Me-salpn (H2Me-salpn = N,N'-bis(methylsalicylidene)-1,3-propylenediamine) (1-3) and Me-salbn ...

2007

Isomerization mechanisms of a labile Co(II) octahedral complex

André Merbach, Lothar Helm, Fabrice Riblet

The labile cobalt (II) complex [Co(TUF)2(Pic)2] with 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(2-thienyl)-1,3-butanedione (TUF) bidentate and 4-methylpyridine (Pic) monodentate ligands was studied by variable temp. (VT) 19F NMR from 184 to 312 K. In contrast to the solid state, ...

2006

Cross section investigations of compositions and sub-structures of tips obtained by focused electron beam induced deposition

Philippe Buffat, Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Marco Cantoni, Christian Santschi, Danièle Laub, Johann Michler, Ivo Utke

The spatial evolution of compositions and sub-structures inside focused-electron-beam-deposited tips from dicobalt-octacarbonyl Co2(CO)8 precursor at 25 keV and varying beam current (20 pA - 3 A) is extensively studied for the first time by means of energy ...

2005

Hydrogenation and hydroformylation in ionic liquids, water and biphasic systems

This work covers homogeneous and biphasic catalysis in ionic liquids and water. The work presented herein is divided into two major parts: catalytic hydrogenation and catalytic hydroformylation. The first part also serves as an introduction to catalysis in ...

EPFL2004