Design of Highly Electrophilic and Stable Metal Nitrido Complexes

J Xiang, H Shi, WL Man, TC Lau - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Metal oxo (M═ O) and nitrido (M≡ N) complexes are two important classes of
high-valent transition metal complexes. The use of M═ O as oxidants in chemical and …

Visible Light-Induced Oxidation of Alcohols by a Luminescent Osmium(VI) Nitrido Complex: Evidence for the Generation of PhIO+ as a Highly Active Oxidant in the …

J Xiang, Y Pan, LL Liu, LX Wang, H Yang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Although alcohols are readily oxidized by a variety of oxidants, their oxidation by metal
nitrido complexes is yet to be studied. We report herein visible-light-induced oxidation of …

Chalcogen atom abstraction from NCE−(E= O, S, Se) and i-Pr 2 S by the excited state of a luminescent tricyano osmium (vi) nitride

LX Wang, M Zhou, LL Liu, J Xiang, JY Liu… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Upon irradiation by blue LED (λ> 460 nm), the tricyano osmium nitrido complex [OsVI
(N)(L)(CN) 3]−(OsN) in its excited state readily abstracts chalcogen atoms from the anions …

Ring Nitrogenation of Aromatic Amines by the Excited State of an Osmium (VI) Nitrido Complex

LL Liu, LX Wang, M Peng, J Xiang, H Yang… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The reactivity of electrophilic OsVI and RuVI nitrides toward various aliphatic and aromatic
amines have been previously reported; these reactions all go through an initial nucleophilic …