Roles of the hydrogen atoms attached to the metal center of transition metal polyhydride
complexes, LnMHx (x≥ 3), are analyzed for about forty types of organic reactions catalyzed …

A. Hydride Is the Smallest Ligand and the Only One To Make a Pure Single Bond to a Metal
Hydride is the ligand with the smallest number of valence electrons and thus an ideal choice …

can be attributed to the discovery and development of the metallocenes by Wilkinson and
Fischer, 1 the field has been and is still dominated by compounds that follow the so-called …

More than 70 equilibrium constants K between acids and bases, mainly phosphine
derivatives, have been measured in tetrahydrofuran (THF) at 20° C by 1H and/or 31P NMR …

Some 20 years ago, I was privileged to share in writing a book on the descriptive chemistry
of the 4d, 5d, 4f and 5f metals that included these eight elements within its compass (SA …

The preparation, structure, dynamic behavior in solution, and reactivity of polyhydride
complexes of platinum group metals, described during the last three decades, are …

An easy and direct access to POP-type osmium (II) and osmium (IV) complexes, including
OsH4 {dbf (P i Pr2) 2}(dbf (P i Pr2) 2= 4, 6-bis (diisopropylphosphine) dibenzofuran), is …

The reaction of the hexahydride OsH6 (PiPr3) 2 with a P, Ge, P-germylene-diphosphine
affords an osmium tetrahydride derivative bearing a Ge, P-chelate, which arises from the …

The present review reports on the chemistry of the osmium–carbon double bond, including
alkylidene or carbene, vinylidene, and allenylidene derivatives. Within the first type of …

Novel homoleptic and heteroleptic NHC carbene containing bis (tridentate) osmium (II)
complexes have been designed, synthesized, and characterized, and their photophysical …