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Synthesis and Reactivity of 1-Allenyltriazenes

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Loïc Nicolas Jeanbourquin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

1-Aryl-3,3-dialkyltriazenes have received considerable attention in the context of synthetic and medicinal chemistry. In contrast, the chemistry of other unsaturated triazenes is largely unexplored. The synthesis of 1-allenyltriazenes is described. This ne ...

2017

Divergent Asymmetric Synthesis of Polycyclic Compounds via Vinyl Triazenes

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Gregor Kiefer, Florian Gérald Abela, Nicolai Cramer, David Kossler, Abdusalom Suleymanov

Vinyl triazenes were obtained by enantioselective [2+2] cycloaddition reactions of bicyclic alkenes with 1-alkynyl triazenes in the presence of a RuII catalyst with a chiral cyclopentadienyl ligand. These triazenes serve as unique vinyl cation surrogates. ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2017

Fixation of nitrous oxide by mesoionic and carbanionic N-heterocyclic carbenes

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Giacomo Cecot

A ditopic carbanionic N-heterocyclic carbene was found to react with the inert gas nitrous oxide, resulting in a stable covalent adduct with two intact N2O groups attached to the heterocycle. Mesoionic N-heterocyclic carbenes derived from C2-arylated 1,3-b ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Preparation of cationic azo compounds

Kay Severin, Alexander Tskhovrebov

The present invention relates to a novel method for preparing cationic azo compounds, which preferably can be used as dyes. Further, the invention relates to novel cationic azo compounds and the use of N2O in the synthesis of azo-imidazolium dyes. ...

2016

Surface functionalization of dinuclear clathrochelates via Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions: facile synthesis of polypyridyl metalloligands

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Philip Pattison, Mathieu Jérémie Marmier, Giacomo Cecot

Dinuclear clathrochelate complexes are easily accessible by reaction of zinc(II) triflate or cobalt(II) nitrate with arylboronic acids and phenoldioximes. The utilization of brominated arylboronic acids and/or brominated phenoldioximes allows preparing cla ...

2016

The Ligand Aspect Ratio as a Decisive Factor for the Self-Assembly of Coordination Cages

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Philip Pattison, Konstantin Zhurov, Matthew David Wise, Alba Finelli, Giacomo Cecot, Suzanne Maria Jansze

It is possible to control the geometry and the composition of metallasupramolecular assemblies via the aspect ratio of their ligands. This point is demonstrated for a series of iron- and palladium-based coordination cages. Functionalized clathrochelate com ...

2016

Neutral Aminyl Radicals Derived from Azoimidazolium Dyes

Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Philip Pattison, Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Ivica Zivkovic, Matthew Wodrich, Alexander Tskhovrebov, José Luis Bila

The synthesis and characterization of a new class of neutral aminyl radicals is reported. Monoradicals were obtained by reduction of azoimidazolium dyes with potassium. Structural, spectroscopic, and computational data suggest that the spin density is cent ...

2016

Carboxylic Acid Functionalized Clathrochelate Complexes: Large, Robust, and Easy-to-Access Metalloligands

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Kurt Schenk, Philip Pattison, Mathieu Jérémie Marmier, Matthew David Wise

Polycarboxylate ligands are among the most important building blocks for the synthesis of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). The ability to access these ligands in an efficient way is of key importance for future applications of MOFs. Here, we demonstrate th ...

2016

Crystal Engineering of Polymeric Structures with Dative Boron–Nitrogen Bonds: Design Criteria and Limitations

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Kurt Schenk, Philip Pattison, Nicolas Luisier, Kevin Bally, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

The combination of tripyridyl ligands and linear diboronate esters results in the formation of oligomeric or polymeric adducts featuring dative boron−nitrogen bonds. The relative orientation of the two different building blocks in the assemblies can be pre ...

2016

Dinuclear clathrochelate complexes with pendent cyano groups as metalloligands

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Bálint Náfrádi, Philip Pattison, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Ivica Zivkovic, Mathieu Jérémie Marmier, Giacomo Cecot, José Luis Bila

Dinuclear clathrochelate complexes with two, three, four, or five cyano groups in the ligand periphery were prepared following two distinct synthetic strategies: (a) zinc(II)- or cobalt(II)-templated polycondensation reactions of CN-functionalized arylboro ...

2016

Large heterometallic coordination cages with gyrobifastigium-like geometry

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Stéphanie Prior, Bassam Alameddine, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Giacomo Cecot

Large coordination cages with unusual gyrobifastigium-like geometry were obtained by combining cis-blocked PtII or PdII complexes with clathrochelate-based metalloligands ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Molecularly Defined Nanostructures Based on a Novel AAA-DDD Triple Hydrogen Bonding Motif

Kay Severin, Konstantin Zhurov, Clément Alexis Vuilleumier, Marcus Papmeyer

A facile and flexible method for the synthesis of a new AAA–DDD triple hydrogen-bonding motif is described. Polytopic supramolecular building blocks with precisely oriented AAA and DDD groups are thus accessible in few steps. These building blocks were use ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2016

Supramolecular gels based on boronate esters and imidazolyl donors

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Nicolas Luisier

Dative boron–nitrogen bonds can be used for the controlled assembly of boronate esters and N-donor ligands. So far, most investigations have focused on crystalline assemblies. In contrast, there are very few reports about soft materials based on dative B–N ...

2016

Preparation and medical use of triazenes

Kay Severin, Gregor Kiefer

The present invention relates to a novel method for preparing triazenes. Further, the invention relates to novel triazenes and the use of N2O for preparing a compound comprising a triazene group. Further, the invention relates to the use of the novel triaz ...

2015

Selective detection of Al3+ and citric acid with a fluorescent amphiphile

Kay Severin, Ziya Köstereli

An amphiphilic fluorescent dye with a disulfonated BODIPY head group and a heptadecyl side chain is described. In buffered aqueous solution, the amphiphile can form aggregates with a critical micelle concentration of similar to 20 mu M. The aggregation of ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

A heterometallic macrocycle as a redox-controlled molecular hinge

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Clément Schouwey, Marcus Papmeyer

The ability to modify the structure of nanoscopic assemblies in a controlled fashion is an important prerequisite for the creation of functional supramolecular systems. Here, we describe a heterometallic Pt2Cu2-macrocycle which behaves as a molecular hinge ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Synthesis of Triazenes with Nitrous Oxide

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Gregor Kiefer, Tina Riedel

Triazenes are valuable compounds in organic chemistry and numerous applications have been reported. Furthermore, triazenes have been investigated extensively as potential antitumor drugs. Here, we describe a new method for the synthesis of triazenes. The p ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Large, heterometallic coordination cages based on ditopic metallo-ligands with 3-pyridyl donor groups

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Philip Pattison, Matthew David Wise

Ditopic N-donor ligands with terminal 4-pyridyl groups are omnipresent in coordination-based self-assembly. The utilization of ligands with 3-pyridyl donor groups is significantly less common, because the intrinsic conformational flexibility of these ligan ...

2015

Synthetic chemistry with nitrous oxide

Kay Severin

This review article summarizes efforts to use nitrous oxide (N2O, ‘laughing gas’) as a reagent in synthetic chemistry. The focus will be on reactions which are carried out in homogeneous solution under (relatively) mild conditions. First, the utilization o ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

1-Alkynyltriazenes as Functional Analogues of Ynamides

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Jérôme Waser, Gregor Kiefer, Loïc Nicolas Jeanbourquin, Florian Gérald Abela, Sophie Lucie Racine, Daniele Perrotta

The chemical reactivity of 1-alkynyltriazenes has been investigated and is found to parallel the reactivity of ynamides. The similarity in reactivity of these two classes of compounds is demonstrated by addition reactions with acids, by cycloaddition react ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

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