Grignard reagents RMgCl and their so‐called turbo variant, the highly reactive RMgCl⋅ LiCl,
are of exceptional synthetic utility. Nevertheless, it is still not fully understood which species …

Gaseous fragment ions generated in mass spectrometers may be employed as “building
blocks” for the synthesis of novel molecules on surfaces using ion soft-landing. A …

The reactions of water with the coordinatively unsaturated group 10 organometallic cations
[(L) M (R)]+(4; where L= 1, 10-phenanthroline (phen), neocuproine (neo); M= nickel …

Gas-phase organoactinyl complexes possessing discrete An–C bonds (An= U, Np, Pu) were
synthesized in a quadrupole ion trap by endothermic decarboxylation of [AnO2 (O2C–R) 3] …

Copper-mediated allylic substitution reactions are widely used in organic synthesis,
whereas the analogous reactions for silver and gold are essentially unknown. To unravel …

There are three metal-mediated ligand decomposition reactions that give rise to
organometallics:(i) decarboxylation of a metal carboxylate,“the Pesci reaction”;(ii) …

The gas-phase protodecarboxylation of acetic acid catalyzed by group 10 metal complexes
was examined using a combination of multistage mass spectrometry experiments in an ion …

Gas-phase ion-ion reactions between tris-1, 10-phenantholine metal dications,[(phen) 3M]
2+(where M= Ni and Mg), and the tetraphenylborate anion yield the ion-pairs {[(phen) 3M] …

The long suspected presence of two isomeric copper complexes (A and B), proportionally
dependent on ESI cone voltage, was confirmed by their isolation, separation and …

Under ambient conditions, mass-selected “bare” M (CH3)+ ions (M= Zn, Cd, Hg) react with
ammonia with cleavage of the metal–carbon bond and concomitant C–N coupling, yielding …