Recent progress on the use of iron and cobalt complex pre-catalysts for ethylene reactivity is
reviewed. The review is organized in terms of the denticity of the chelate ligands employed …

Cobalt alkyl complexes bearing readily available and redox-active 2, 2′: 6′, 2 ″-
terpyridine and α-diimine ligands have been synthesized, and their electronic structures …

Redox noninnocent ligands are a promising tool to moderate electron transfer processes
within base-metal catalysts. This report introduces bis (imino) acenaphthene (BIAN) …

The chemistry of redox-active bis (imino) acenaphthenes (BIAN, R-bian) and metal
complexes based on them has been a rapidly developing field since the 1990s. The key …

Reactions of various substituted bis (imino) acenaphthenes (R‐BIANs) with FeCl2 (thf) 1.5
afforded the tetrahedral complexes (R‐BIAN) FeCl2 (2) from bulky α‐diimines and the …

Herein, we report an operationally convenient, cobalt-catalyzed alkylation of aryl nitriles
employing primary and secondary alcohols (> 30 examples, up to 86% yield). The use of …

A series of Ar-BIAN-based copper (I) complexes (where Ar-BIAN= bis (aryl)
acenaphthenequinonediimine) were synthesised and characterised by 1H and 13C NMR …

Complexes [(dpp-BIAN) 0CoIII2]· MeCN (I) and [(Py) 2CoI2](II) were synthesized by the
reaction between cobalt (II) iodide and 1, 2-bis (2, 6-diisopropylphenylimino) acenaphthene …

A new rigid bidentate ligand, bis (1-naphthylimino) acenaphthene, L1, and its Zn (II) and Pd
(II) complexes [ZnCl2 (L1)], 1, and [PdCl2 (L1)], 2, were synthesized. L1 was prepared by the …

The combination of redox-active metals with redox-active ligands can lead to interesting
charge transfer behaviours, including valence tautomerism and solvatochromism. With the …