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Transition metal indenyl complex

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Tuning the reactivity of uranium towards small molecules in multimetallic complexes

One of the main goals of organometallic chemistry in the last decades was the activation of small molecule in mild reaction conditions. Even though multiple examples of catalytic cycles able to produce fine chemicals from cheap and abundant sources using t ...

EPFL2023

Intermolecular Pd(0)-Catalyzed Atropo-enantioselective C-H Arylation of Heteroarenes and Other Investigations into the Enantioselective Activation of Challenging C(sp3)-H Bonds

Qui-Hien Nguyen

The direct construction of stereogenic axes by enantioselective C-H arylation has been regarded as a very challenging transformation. Very few examples have been reported, despite the indisputable straight-forwardness of the methodology. This is due to the ...

EPFL2021

Organometallic rhodium(III) and iridium(III) cyclopentadienyl complexes with curcumin and bisdemethoxycurcumin co-ligands

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Tina Riedel, Agnese Petrini

A series of half-sandwich cyclopentadienyl rhodium(III) and iridium(III) complexes of the type [CpM(curc/bdcurc) Cl] and [CpM(curc/bdcurc)(PTA)][SO3CF3], in which Cp* = pentamethylcyclopentadienyl, curcH = curcumin and bdcurcH = bisdemethoxycurcumin as O ...

2015

Modulating the Anticancer Activity of Ruthenium(II)-Arene Complexes

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Emilia Paunescu

Following the identification of [Ru(eta(6)-p-cymene)Cl-2(1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorodecyl-3-(pyridin-3-yl)propanoate)], a ruthenium(II)arene complex with a perfluoroalkyl-modified ligand that displays remarkable in vitro cancer cell selectivity, a series of stru ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Contributions to the Chemistry of the Cyclopentadienyl Complex [Cp^RuCl2](2) ("Cp-roof" = eta(5)-1-Methoxy-2,4-tert-butyl-3-neopentylcyclopentadienyl)

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Euro Solari, Barnali Dutta, Julie Risse

The dimeric ruthenium complex Cp^RuCl2 is easily accessible in a one-pot reaction from RuCl3(solv)(n) and tert-butylacetylene. It features sterically very demanding "Cp-roof" ligands (Cp^ = eta(5)-1-methoxy-2,4-tert-butyl-3-neopentylcyclopentadienyl), ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Arene ruthenium and pentamethylcyclopentadienyl rhodium and iridium complexes containing N,O-chelating ligands derived from piroxicam: Synthesis, molecular structure and cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Tina Riedel

The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic drug piroxicam (LH) reacts with arene ruthenium dichloride dimers in refluxing dichloromethane to give the complexes [(eta(6)-arene)Ru(eta(2)-N,O-L)Cl] (3: arene = C6H5Me, 4: arene = p-MeC6H4Pri, 5: ar ...

Elsevier2014

Anticancer activity of new organo-ruthenium, rhodium and iridium complexes containing the 2-(pyridine-2-yl)thiazole N,N-chelating ligand

Paul Joseph Dyson, Angela Casini, Fabio Edafe

The dinuclear dichloro complexes [(η6-arene)2Ru2(μ-Cl)2Cl2] and [(η5-C5Me5)2M2(μ-Cl)2Cl2] react with 2-(pyridine-2-yl)thiazole (pyTz) to afford the cationic complexes [(η6-arene)Ru(pyTz)Cl]+ (arene = C6H6 (1), p-iPrC6H4Me (2) or C6Me6 (3)) and [(η5-C5Me5)M ...

Elsevier2010

Development of Bimetallic Titanocene-Ruthenium-Arene Complexes As Anticancer Agents: Relationships between Structural and Biological Properties

Olivier Pierre Zava, Fabio Edafe

A series of bimetallic titanium-ruthenium complexes of general formula (η5-C5H5)(μ-η5:κ1-C5H4(CR12)nPR2R3)TiCl2RuCl2 (n = 0, 1, 2 or 4; R1 = H or Me; R2 = H, Ph, or Cy; R3 = Ph or Cy) have been synthesized, including two novel compds. as wel ...

American Chemical Society2010

Novel Ruthenium Complexes with Sterically Demanding Cyclopentadienyl Ligands : Syntheses, Reactivity and Catalytic Applications

Barnali Dutta

Investigations of ruthenium halfsandwich complexes have mostly focused on Cp and Cp* based derivatives due to the availability of easily accessible starting materials. However, it is interesting to have complexes with substituted cyclopentadienyl ligands i ...

EPFL2010

Studies on the reactivity of organometallic Ru-, Rh- and Os-pta complexes with DNA model compounds

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Christian Hartinger, Antoine Dorcier

The reactions of arene-metal complexes (arene = p-cymene, benzene or pentamethylcyclopentadienyl, metal = Ru, Rh or Os), including 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphatricyclo-[3.3.1.1]decanephosphine (pta) and chloro co-ligands, with 9-methylguanine, adenine, and a ser ...

2008

Structure, dynamics and catalytic activity of ruthenium(II)-arene phosphine complexes

This thesis encompasses work on the coordination chemistry and catalytic activity of half sandwich ruthenium(II)-arene phosphine complexes. The investigation of phosphine dissociation and association reactions of these complexes represents the unifying the ...

EPFL2007

Development of organometallic ruthenium(II) anticancer (RAPTA) drugs

Wee Han Ang

A review. The systematic development of the RAPTA family of organometallic ruthenium(II) anticancer drugs contg. a monodentate 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphatricyclo-[3.3.1.1]decane ligand and a h6-arene ligand is described. ...

2007

Mechanistic Studies on the Formation of eta(2)-Diphosphine (eta(6)-p-cymene)ruthenium(II) Compounds

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Céline Fellay

A new range of pendent diphosphine (η6-p-cymene)ruthenium(II) complexes, [RuCl(PPh3)(η1-(P-P))(η6-p-cymene)]PF6 (P-P = dppm, cis-PPh2CHCHPPh2

2007

Biomimetic catalysis with immobilized transition metal complexes

Alexander Schiller

The tetradentate chelate ligand tris[(1-vinylimidazol-2-yl)methyl]amine (10) was synthesized in five steps from commercially available starting materials. Upon reaction with MCl2 (M = Zn, Cu, Ni, Co) in the presence of NH4PF6, the complexes [M(10)Cl]PF6 (M ...

EPFL2006

New polynuclear catalysts for atom-transfer radical addition reactions

Laurent Quebatte

Homo- and heterobimetallic complexes of the late transitions metals have been synthesized by metathesis reactions of the corresponding chloro-bridged dimers. These reactions have the advantage of being fast and giving rise to structurally defined products ...

EPFL2006

pi-Arene/Metal Binding: An Issue Not Only of Structure but Also of Reactivity

Eric Masson

A trimethyl-, triethyl-, or triisopropylsilyl group attached to the meta position of toluene retards the rate of permutational H/metal interconversion with butyllithium in the presence of K tert-butoxide by factors of 1.7, 3, and 7, resp. Although remote f ...

2005

Highly cross-linked polymers containing N,N ',N ''-chelate ligands for the Cu(II)-mediated hydrolysis of phosphoesters

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Alexander Schiller

Three immobilized Cu(II) complexes were generated by the following: (a) homopolymerization of the N,N',N '' chelate ligand tris[2-(1-vinylimidazolyl)]phosphine (1) and subsequent metalation with CuCl2; (b) copolymerization of 1 with ethyleneglycol dimethac ...

2005