Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are emerging porous materials with highly tunable structures developed in the 1990s, while organometallic chemistry is of fundamental importance for catalytic transformation in the academic and industrial world for man...
When interpreting the evolution of science, it is essential not only to know its history in terms of the foundational facts or the advances in the global theories that define it but also to understand how the subordinate theories, methodologies, and...
Non-covalent interactions are one of the key topics in coordination and organometallic chemistry. Examples of such weak interactions are hydrogen, halogen, and chalcogen bonds, stacking interactions, metallophilic contacts, etc. Non-covalent interact...
It is a great pleasure to assume the role of Editor-in-Chief for the “Organometallic Chemistry” Section of Molecules (https://www [...]
Nowadays, nanostructures having tremendous chemical and physical properties are gaining attention in the biomedical industry. However, when they are prepared through classical methods (physical and chemical), they are often non-biocompatible and toxi...
The problem of non-covalent interactions in coordination and organometallic compounds is a hot topic in modern chemistry, material science, crystal engineering and related fields of knowledge. Researchers in various fields of chemistry and other disc...
The use of organometallic compounds in organic chemistry is one of the cornerstones of the modern synthetic methodology for the activation and generation of new bonds in a molecule [...]
Over the last 20 years, the use of metallic nanoparticles (MNPs) in catalysis has awakened a great interest in the scientific community, mainly due to the many advantages of this kind of nanostructures in catalytic applications. MNPs exhibit the char...
Organometallic sandwich compounds, especially ferrocenes, possess a wide variety of pharmacological activities and therefore are attracting more and more attention from chemists, biologists, biochemists, etc. Excellent reviews concerning biological a...
Considering the climate, societal and health-related current and emerging issues facing the world, our group, as part of the (nano-)material science community, will play a part in providing materials and technology that can tackle these issues [...]
The unique environment within the core of carbaporphyrinoid systems provides a platform to explore unusual organometallic chemistry. The ability of these structures to form stable organometallic derivatives was first demonstrated for N-confused porph...
Due to human activities, the concentrations of organometallic compounds in all parts of the environment have increased in recent decades. The toxicity and some biochemical properties of mercury and tin present in the environment depend on the concen...
The design and the synthesis of molecule-based crystalline salts made up of simple cationic and/or anionic building blocks with multiple, occasionally stimulus-responsive, chemical (host–guest, catalytic, acid–base, or redox) and physical...
The benzimidazole core (BI) plays a central role in biologically active molecules. The BI nucleus is widely used as a building block to generate a variety of bioactive heterocyclic compounds to be used as antihelmintics, antiprotozoal, antimalarials,...
Ferrocene (Fc), a redox-active organometallic scaffold, has attracted significant attention in medicinal chemistry due to its favorable physicochemical and pharmacological properties. The present study explores the therapeutic potential of novel Fc-f...
Alkynylallenes offer the varied reactivity patterns of two different multiple bond linkages either separately or in concert. Initially, a short overview of their syntheses, structures, rearrangement mechanisms and synthetic utility, especially when t...
Metallocenes represent one of the most important classes of organometallics with wide prospects for practical use in various fields of chemistry, materials science, molecular electronics, and biomedicine. Many applications of these metal complexes ar...
The results of my research in the fields of theoretical studies and computer modeling of supramolecular chemical systems were presented. The main attention was focused on theoretical studies in the following topics: cycloaddition and nucleophilic add...
Electronic and spin structures of open-shell molecules and clusters were investigated as possible building blocks for the construction of one- and two-dimensional quantum spin alignment systems which exhibited several characteristic quantum propertie...
A comparative theoretical study on the reactivity of the complexes [ReY(CO)3(bipy)] (Y = NH2, NHMe, NHpTol, OH, OMe, OPh, PH2, PHMe, PMe2, PHPh, PPh2, PMePh, SH, SMe, SPh; bipy = 2,2′-bipyridine) towards methyl propiolate was carried out to ana...
The synthesis of a small library of fused Cyclic Aryl Amino Carbon (f-CArAC) carbene precursors in the form of 1,1,2,4-tetraaryl-1H-isoindol-2-ium triflate (6), (7-R) (R = tBu, CF3) or 3,3-dimethyl-2,8-bis-arene-substituted-3,4-dihydro-isoquinolin-2-...
The reactions of the diiron aminocarbyne complexes [Fe2Cp2(NCMe)(CO)(μ-CO){μ-CN(Me)(R)}]CF3SO3 (R = Me, 1aNCMe; R = Cy, 1bNCMe), freshly prepared from the tricarbonyl precursors 1a–b, with primary amines containing an additional function...
The global E factor (EG factor) has recently been introduced, in the context of asymmetric organocatalysis, as a new green chemistry metric to take into consideration the synthesis of the catalyst in the overall economy of the synthetic process of a...
Diiron μ-aminocarbyne complexes [Fe2Cp2(NCMe)(CO)(μ-CO){μ-CN(Me)(R)}]CF3SO3 (R = Xyl, [1aNCMe]CF3SO3; R = Me, [1bNCMe]CF3SO3; R = Cy, [1cNCMe]CF3SO3; R = CH2Ph, [1dNCMe]CF3SO3), freshly prepared from tricarbonyl precursors [1a–d]CF3SO3...
Herein, we report the synthesis of a series of heteroleptic magnesium complexes stabilized with the scorpionate ligand tris(2-pyridylthio)methanide (Tptm). The compounds of the general formula [Mg(Tptm)(X)] (1-X; X = Cl, Br, I) were obtained via prot...
The behaviour of platinum(II) and palladium(0) complexes coordinated by various hydrosoluble monodentate phosphane ligands has been investigated by 31P{1H} NMR spectroscopy in the presence of randomly methylated β-cyclodextrin (RAME-β-CD). This molec...
N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are ubiquitous ancillary ligands employed in metal-catalyzed homogeneous reactions and polymerization reactions. Of significance is the use of NHCs as the supporting ligand in second- and third-generation Grubbs catalys...
A new spirostannole, 1,1′,3,3′-tetrakis(5-methylthiophen-2-yl)-4,4′,5,5′,6,6′,7,7′-octahydro-2,2′-spirobi[benzo[c]stannole] (4), is synthesised and the molecular structure is compared with the optimised geome...
This article discusses the properties of as many as 30 carbene–ZnX
The subject of research is forty dimers formed by imidazol-2-ylidene (I) or its derivative (IR
In this communication, we present the results obtained using a family of cyclometallated palladium compounds as catalysts for the Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reaction between an aryl halide and phenylboronic acid. We have studied the structur...
This work presents the synthesis and structural characterization of a novel type of biscyclometalated Ir(III) complex, which is equipped with two iodoethynyl moieties on its 2,2′-bipyridine (bpy) ligand. Iodoethynyl moieties represent prominent...
An important property of arylboronic acids, particularly when considering their use in medicinal chemistry, is their pKa in aqueous solution. The results of computational determination of absolute pKas of arylboronic acids can be very disappointing i...
We conducted a joint synthetic, spectroscopic and computational study to explore the reactivity towards cyanide (from Bu4NCN) of a series of dinuclear complexes based on the M2Cp2(CO)3 scaffold (M = Fe, Ru; Cp = η5-C5H5), namely [M2Cp2(CO)2(&micr...
One-pot protocols leading to target products in two or more sequential reactions, without the separation and isolation of intermediate products, are powerful synthetic tools. In fact, they surpass usual procedures based on single-step reactions in te...
Considerable attention has been given to the research field of bioorganometallic chemistry, which is a hybrid chemistry field between biology and organometallic chemistry. The introduction of biomolecules, which have hydrogen bonding sites and chiral...
Organometallic chemistry deals with the synthesis, structure, reactivity, and applications of compounds containing metal–carbon covalent bonds. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in predicting the catalytic activity of organomet...
For decades, ligands such as phosphanes or cyclopentadienyl ring derivatives have dominated Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry. At the same time, alternative compounds have emerged that could compete either for a more practical and accessible...
Ligand design is at the forefront of many advances in various areas of chemistry such as organometallic chemistry, functional materials, and homogeneous catalysis [...]
This short review summarizes our contribution to the coordination chemistry of noble metals (organometallic fragments of Rh, Ir, Ru and hydroxo Pt(IV)) and polyoxocomplexes of niobium and tantalum.
Databases of organic compounds are rooted in chemical formats, typically modeling chemical structures as simple graphical representations, which are easily readable by both humans and machines. This information can be handled by software and standard...
The impact of organometallic chemistry on the terpene field only really blossomed in the 1960s and 1970s with the realisation that carbon–carbon bond formation under mild conditions could be achieved by using nickel or iron carbonyls as synthet...
This mini-review offers a comprehensive overview of the advancements made over the last three years in utilizing highly polar s-block organometallic reagents (specifically, RLi, RNa and RMgX compounds) in organic synthesis run under bench-type reacti...
In recent years, the organometallic and coordination chemistry of the alkali and alkaline earth metals has experienced tremendous progress to tackle the needs of today’s society. Enhanced ecological awareness and global availability favor research on...
Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions constitute one of the most important and useful transformations in transition metal-catalyzed reactions [1–3]. Although this research field emerged in the 1970s, it is still attracting considerable attenti...
A few months before the COVID-19 pandemic, Pierre Vogel and Kendall N. Houk published with a new textbook Wiley-VCH, “Organic Chemistry: Theory, Reactivity, and Mechanisms in Modern Synthesis”, with a foreword from the late Roberts H. Gru...
In the face of the recent pandemic and emergence of infectious diseases of viral origin, research on parasitic diseases such as malaria continues to remain critical and innovative methods are required to target the rising widespread resistance that r...
Ferrocenyl-based compounds have many applications in diverse scientific disciplines, including in polymer chemistry as redox dynamic polymers and dendrimers, in materials science as bioreceptors, and in pharmacology, biochemistry, electrochemistry, a...
Fatalities caused by infectious diseases (i.e., diseases caused by parasite, bacteria, and viruses) have become reinstated as a major public health threat globally. Factors such as antimicrobial resistance and viral complications are the key contribu...
Organometallic and metal–organic compounds are widely used in different fields of chemistry and allied disciplines, including bioinorganic and medicinal chemistry. Of particular interest is the development of novel potential anticancer agents b...
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