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One tetrahedral and two trigonal prismatic cages with π-basic Au3(pyrazolate)3 faces were obtained by connection of pre-formed gold complexes via dynamic covalent imine chemistry. The parallel arrangement of the Au3(pyrazolate)3 complexes in the prismatic ...

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NMR Crystallography in the Big Data Era: New Methods and Applications Powered by Machine Learning

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Structure determination of materials is key to understanding their physical properties. While single-crystal X-ray diffraction is the gold standard for structures displaying long-range order, many materials of interest are polycrystalline and/or disordered ...

EPFL2023

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Quantifying the Solution Structure of Metal Nanoclusters Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

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Light-Responsive Oligothiophenes Incorporating Photochromic Torsional Switches

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Arene-ruthenium(II) complexes with pyrazole-based ligands bearing a pyridine moiety: Synthesis, structure, DFT calculations, and cytotoxicity

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Two pyrazole-based ligands bearing a pyridine moiety, 3-methyl-1-(pyridin-2-yl)-5-pyrazolone (HLpy), and 3methyl-1-(pyridin-2-yl)-4-trifluoroacetyl-5-pyrazolone (HQpy,CF3), were prepared and fully characterized in the solid-state and the tautomerism of bot ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Structure:function relationships for thermal and light-induced spin-crossover in isomorphous molecular materials

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Isomorphous [FeL2]BF4center dot solv and [FeL2]ClO4center dot solv (L = 4-{isopropylsulfanyl}-2,6-di{pyrazol-1-yl}pyridine; solv = MeNO2, MeCN, 0.67Me(2)CO or H2O) exhibit a variety of thermal spin-crossover (SCO) behaviours. This complexity exte ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Antiproliferative Activities of Diimine-Based Mixed Ligand Copper(II) Complexes

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A series of Cu(diimine)(X-sal)(NO3) complexes, where the diimine is either 2,2'-bipyridine (bpy) or 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) and X-sal is a monoanionic halogenated salicylaldehyde (X = Cl, Br, I, or H), have been synthesized and characterized by elementa ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Picometer Resolution Structure of the Coordination Sphere in the Metal-Binding Site in a Metalloprotein by NMR

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The Quest for Molecular Grippers: Photo-Electric Control of Molecular Gripping Machinery

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In a variety of fields, in particular those involving imaging and optics, we often measure signals whose phase is missing or has been irremediably distorted. Phase retrieval attempts to recover the phase information of a signal from the magnitude of its Fo ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Synthesis, characterization and cytotoxicity of arene-ruthenium(II) complexes with acylpyrazolones functionalized with aromatic groups in the acyl moiety

Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Tina Riedel

A series of neutral ruthenium(II)-arene complexes, [(arene) Ru(Q(R))Cl] (arene = p-cymene or hexamethylbenzene), containing 4-acyl-5-pyrazolonate (Q(R)) ligands with aromatic substituents in the acyl moiety (a phenyl in Q(Ph) and a 1-naphthyl in Q(naph)) a ...

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Arene-Ruthenium(II) Complexes with Bioactive ortho-Hydroxydibenzoylmethane Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, and Cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Tina Riedel, Agnese Petrini

The synthesis of a series of neutral arene-ruthenium (II) complexes (arene = p-cymene, hexamethylbenzene, and benzene) [(arene)Ru(HDB) Cl] derived from the reaction of the appropriate arene-ruthenium(II) dimers and ortho-hydroxydibenzoylmethane (HDBH), a p ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Cytotoxic Half-Sandwich Rh(III) and Ir(III) beta-Diketonates

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American Chemical Society2017

Carboxylic Acid Functionalized Clathrochelate Complexes: Large, Robust, and Easy-to-Access Metalloligands

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Kurt Schenk, Philip Pattison, Mathieu Jérémie Marmier, Matthew David Wise

Polycarboxylate ligands are among the most important building blocks for the synthesis of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). The ability to access these ligands in an efficient way is of key importance for future applications of MOFs. Here, we demonstrate th ...

2016

Crystalline and Soft Materials Based on Dative Boron-Nitrogen Bonds

Nicolas Luisier

The thesis describes the utilization of dative boron-nitrogen bond is used for the construction of new materials. In chapter 2.1, the synthesis of new organogels based on bisimidazolyl ligands and diboronate esters is described. Gels with a critical gel co ...

EPFL2016

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

Syntheses, characterizations, X-ray crystal structures, and antibacterial activities of Co( II), Ni( II), and Zn( II) complexes of the Schiff base derived from 5-nitro-2hydroxybenzaldehyde and benzylamine

Kurt Schenk

Three new complexes, [(CoL2)-L-II(bzln)(2)] (1), [(NiL2)-L-II(DMF)(2)] (2), and [(ZnL2)-L-II] (3), with the bidentate (NO) Schiff base HL=2-((E)-(benzylimino)methyl)-4-nitrophenol have been synthesized and characterized. [(CoL2)-L-II(bzln)(2)] (1) was init ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Triphenyltin(IV) adducts of diphosphoryl ligands: structural, electronic and energy aspects from X-ray crystallography and theoretical calculations

Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

Some triphenyltin(IV) adducts with a family of diphosphoryl ligands, RR'P(O)-X-P(O)RR' (R = OPh, Ph, R' = R, An (aniline)) and X = 1,4-OC6H4O, 1,4-OC6H4NH, 1,4-NHC6H4NH 1,4-(NHCH2)(2)C6H4, 1,3-(NHCH2)(2)C6H4 and piperazine have been synthesized and charact ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

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Homoleptic mononuclear nine-coordinate lanthanum(III) and europium(III) tris-complexes [Ln(N^N^O)3]·nH2O with two tridentate N-benzyl-benzimidazole pyridine-2-carboxylates exhibit a rare C3-symmetry of the lanthanide coordination polyhedron in the solid st ...

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