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Palladium-based supramolecular assemblies: from complex structures to water-soluble anion-receptors

The combination of palladium salts and bipyridyl ligands can lead to the formation of a large variety of coordination complexes, with different shapes and sizes, displaying a very versatile host-guest chemistry. Increasing their structural complexity remai ...

EPFL2024

Tuning the reactivity of uranium towards small molecules in multimetallic complexes

Nadir Jori

One of the main goals of organometallic chemistry in the last decades was the activation of small molecule in mild reaction conditions. Even though multiple examples of catalytic cycles able to produce fine chemicals from cheap and abundant sources using t ...

EPFL2023

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

Development of metal-organic frameworks based on N-heterocyclic ligands

Ilia Kochetygov

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have firmly established in the field of porous materials since their early discovery in the 1990s. With a plethora of applications, these materials offer endless possibilities owing to their tunable, modular nature. The vast ...

EPFL2022

Tuning the Size and Geometry of Heteroleptic Coordination Cages by Varying the Ligand Bent Angle

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Rujin Li

Spherical assemblies of the type [PdnL2n]2n+ can be obtained from PdII salts and curved N-donor ligands, L. It is well established that the bent angle, α, of the ligand is a decisive factor in the self-assembly process, with larger angles leading to comple ...

2021

Pyrene-based metal organic frameworks: from synthesis to applications

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Fatma Pelin Uran, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero

Pyrene is one of the most widely investigated aromatic hydrocarbons given to its unique optical and electronic properties. Hence, pyrene-based ligands have been attractive for the synthesis of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) in the last few years. In this ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Assembly of High-Spin [Fe-3] Clusters by Ligand-Based Multielectron Reduction

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Ivica Zivkovic, Davide Toniolo

The hexanuclear [Na12Fe6(tris-cyclo-salophen)(2)(THF)(14)], 1-THF, and the trinuclear [Na6Fe3(tris-cyclo-salophen)(py)(9)], 1-py, Fe(II) clusters can be easily assembled in one step from the ligand-based reduction of the [FeII(salophen)(THF)] complex. Thes ...

2020

A smart low molecular weight gelator for the triple detection of copper (II), mercury (II), and cyanide ions in water resources

Rosario Scopelliti

Novel supramolecular gelators based on quinoline-indolin-2-one structure were synthesized. These gelators formed stable organogels in a mixture of DMSO/H2O (1:1). The scanning electron microscopy (SEM), IR and NMR spectroscopies, and rheological measuremen ...

ELSEVIER2020

Cages vs. Prisms: Controlling the Formation of Metallosupramolecular Architectures with Ligand Side-Chains

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Giacomo Cecot, Andrea Luca Ramorini, Ophélie Marie Planes, Martin Tim Doll

Metallosupramolecular assemblies of the general formula M2nLn can adopt prismatic or cage‐like structures. The factors controlling the aggregation number n and the geometry of the final assembly are still not fully understood. Here, we describe the synthes ...

2019

Double bridged mu(2)-Halide Cu (II) complexes for the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2

Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Jun Gu

Two dicopper (II) complexes of general formula CuLX2 {L = 2, 5-diphenyl-3, 4(2-pyridyl) cyclopenta-2, 4-dien-1-one, X = Cl (1) or Br (2)} have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR, UV-Vis spectroscopic methods. The crystal stru ...

2019

Synthesis, structural determination, theoretical studies and catalytic activity of Mn(II) complex of N-isonicotinyl phosphoric triamide ligand

Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

synthesized and characterized by H-1, C-13, P-31 NMR and IR spectroscopies. The reaction of MnCl2 center dot 4H(2)O with L led to the formation of a new 3D system {MnL2Cl2}(n)center dot 34CH(3)OH (C-1). X-ray crystallographic data revealed that the ligand ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Supramolecular assemblies of organotin(IV)-diphosphoryl adducts: insights from X-rays and DFT

Kurt Schenk

Mono-, di- and tri-phenyltin(IV) adducts containing a neutral diphosphoryl ligand, Ph2P(O)OC6H4OP(O) Ph-2, were synthesized and characterized. These 2 : 1 adducts of two trans-organotin(IV) moieties and the bridging ligand all crystallize around a centre o ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Exploring Ligand Affinities for Proteins by NMR of Long-Lived States

Roberto Buratto

The detection of molecules that can bind to active sites of protein targets and the measurement of their affinities is a promising application of NMR. Nowadays, the screening of drug candidates is routinely done by NMR in pharmaceutical industry. We have p ...

EPFL2015

Ultrafast Photophysics of Transition Metal Complexes

Majed Chergui

CONSPECTUS: The properties of transition metal complexes are interesting not only for their potential applications in solar energy conversion, OLEDs, molecular electronics, biology, photochemistry, etc. but also for their fascinating photophysical properti ...

American Chemical Society2015

New Zn(II) complexes with N2S2 Schiff base ligands. Experimental and theoretical studies of the role of Zn(II) in disulfide thiolate-exchange

Kurt Schenk, Maryam Bagheri

Described are the synthesis and characterization of two, potentially tetradentate, N2S2 Schiff-base ligands, containing a disulfide bond, N,N'-bis(3-phenylprop-2-en-l-ylidene)-2,2'-disulfanediyldianiline (L-1) and N,N'-bis(3,3-diphenylprop-2-en-1-ylidene)- ...

Elsevier2014

Electrochemical assessment of water|ionic liquid biphasic systems towards cesium extraction from nuclear waste

Zhifeng Ding, Thomas James Stockmann

A room temperature ionic liquid (IL) composed of a quaternary alkylphosphonium (trihexyltetradecylphosphonium, P66614(+)) and tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl) borate anion (TB) was employed within a water| P66614TB (w|P66614TB or w|IL) biphasic system to evalua ...

Elsevier2014

Synthesis and Reactivity of Mononuclear Iron Models of [Fe]-Hydrogenase that Contain an Acylmethylpyridinol Ligand

Xile Hu, Dafa Chen, Bowen Hu

[Fe]-hydrogenase has a single iron-containing active site that features an acylmethylpyridinol ligand. This unique ligand environment had yet to be reproduced in synthetic models; however the synthesis and reactivity of a new class of small molecule mimics ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014

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

Diaminophosphine Oxide Ligand Enabled Asymmetric Nickel-Catalyzed Hydrocarbamoylations of Alkenes

Nicolai Cramer, Pavel Alexandrovich Donets

Chiral trivalent phosphorus species are the dominant class of ligands and the key controlling element in asymmetric homogeneous transition-metal catalysis. Here, novel chiral diaminophosphine oxide ligands are described. The arising catalyst system with ni ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Metal-based Chemosensors for Carbohydrates and Biologically Important Ligands

Vera Janowski

Chemosensors based on indicator displacement were developed for the optical detection of different analytes in aqueous solution. The sensing of carbohydrates, including glucose, in aqueous solution at pH 7.4 was achieved by a fluorescent indicator displace ...

EPFL2012