The chemical industry relies on catalytic processes, which involve mainly heterogeneous
catalysts because they offer many advantages over their homogeneous counterparts such …

This review is essentially an update of one entitled “π-Bonding and The Lone Pair Effect in
Multiple Bonds Between Heavier Main Group Elements” which was published more than 10 …

The reactivity of aluminium compounds is dominated by their electron deficiency and
consequent electrophilicity; these compounds are archetypal Lewis acids (electron-pair …

The magnetic relaxation dynamics of low-coordinate DyIII and ErIII complexes, namely three-
coordinate ones with an equatorially coordinated triangle geometry and five-coordinate …

The number of rare earth (RE) starting materials used in synthesis is staggering, ranging
from simple binary metal-halide salts to borohydrides and “designer reagents” such as alkyl …

1. INTRODUCTION Stable, open-shell (d1− d9) transition metal complexes in which the
metal is two-coordinate or quasi-two-coordinate are among the rarest and least investigated …

Most synthetic chemists will have at some point utilized a sterically demanding secondary
amide (R2N−). The three most important examples, lithium 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3 …

The imidazolin-2-imino group is an N-heterocyclic imino functionality that derives from the
class of compounds known as guanidines. The exocyclic nitrogen atom preferably bonds to …

Cyclic structures represent a well-studied structural class due to the novel bonding modes
and reactivity these units possess and the ubiquitous role of cyclic intermediates in a wide …

Despite growing progress in the construction of silazanes, the catalytic asymmetric synthesis
of silicon-stereogenic silazanes is significantly less explored and remains a considerable …