Semiconductor nanocrystals for small molecule activation via artificial photosynthesis

XB Li, ZK Xin, SG Xia, XY Gao, CH Tung… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Facile activation and conversion of small molecules (eg, H2O, CO2, N2, CH4, and C6H6)
into solar fuels or value-added chemicals under mild conditions is an attractive pathway in …

Synergy between metals for small molecule activation: Enzymes and bio-inspired complexes

AC Ghosh, C Duboc, M Gennari - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Transition metal-driven small molecule activation is essential for the production of fuels and
chemicals or energy supply. The use of multimetallic catalysts, where two or more metal …

Ligand Redox Activity of Organonickel Radical Complexes Governed by the Geometry

GA Dawson, Q Lin, MC Neary… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions often employ bidentate π-acceptor N-ligands to
facilitate radical pathways. This report presents the synthesis and characterization of a …

Complexes of Ni (I): a “rare” oxidation state of growing importance

CY Lin, PP Power - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Nickel plays an important role in areas as diverse as metallurgy, magnetism and biology as
well as in chemical applications such as the catalytic transformation of organic substrates …

Mechanistic characterization of (xantphos) Ni (I)-mediated alkyl bromide activation: oxidative addition, electron transfer, or halogen-atom abstraction

JB Diccianni, J Katigbak, C Hu… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Ni (I)-mediated single-electron oxidative activation of alkyl halides has been extensively
proposed as a key step in Ni-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions to generate radical …

Electrochemically induced nickel catalysis for oxygenation reactions with water

Y Liang, SH Shi, R Jin, X Qiu, J Wei, H Tan, X Jiang… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Nickel has been found in some metalloproteins that execute catalytic aerobic oxygenation
reactions in which nickel–dioxygen species are proposed as the key catalytic species. Thus …

A Bimetallic Nickel–Gallium Complex Catalyzes CO2 Hydrogenation via the Intermediacy of an Anionic d10 Nickel Hydride

RC Cammarota, MV Vollmer, J Xie, J Ye… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Large-scale CO2 hydrogenation could offer a renewable stream of industrially important C1
chemicals while reducing CO2 emissions. Critical to this opportunity is the requirement for …

Reactivity of (bi-Oxazoline) organonickel Complexes and Revision of a Catalytic Mechanism

L Ju, Q Lin, NJ LiBretto, CL Wagner… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bi-Oxazoline (biOx) has emerged as an effective ligand framework for promoting nickel-
catalyzed cross-coupling, cross-electrophile coupling, and photoredox-nickel dual catalytic …

Ni (I)–X complexes bearing a bulky α-diimine ligand: synthesis, structure, and superior catalytic performance in the hydrogen isotope exchange in pharmaceuticals

C Zarate, H Yang, MJ Bezdek, D Hesk… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of a family of Ni–X (X= Cl, Br, I, H)
complexes supported by the bulky α-diimine chelate N, N′-bis (1 R, 2 R, 3 R, 5 S)-(−) …

Redox activity of pyridine-oxazoline ligands in the stabilization of low-valent organonickel radical complexes

CL Wagner, G Herrera, Q Lin, CT Hu… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Low-valent organonickel radical complexes are common intermediates in cross-coupling
reactions and metalloenzyme-mediated processes. The electronic structures of N-ligand …