Publications associées à Higher generation cationic N,N-ruthenium(II)-ethylene-glycol-derived metallodendrimers: Synthesis, characterization and cytotoxicity

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Palladium-based supramolecular assemblies: from complex structures to water-soluble anion-receptors

The combination of palladium salts and bipyridyl ligands can lead to the formation of a large variety of coordination complexes, with different shapes and sizes, displaying a very versatile host-guest chemistry. Increasing their structural complexity remai ...

EPFL2024

Steric and Electronic Effects Responsible for N,O- or N,N-Chelating Coordination of Pyrazolones Containing a Pyridine Ring in Ruthenium Arene Systems

Paul Joseph Dyson, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Mouna Hadiji

Structural and electronic factors are crucial to rationalizethedifferent N,O or N,N chelating coordination of pyrazolones containinga pyridine ring. The reactivity of proligand 3-phenyl-1-(pyridin-2-yl)-5-pyrazolone(HLpy,ph) with the (arene)Ru(II) fragment ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Electro- and photochemical H-2 generation by Co(ii) polypyridyl-based catalysts bearing ortho-substituted pyridines

Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Albert Ruggi

Cobalt(II) complexes featuring hexadentate amino-pyridyl ligands have been recently discovered as highly active catalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER), whose high performance arises from the possibility of assisting proton transfer processes v ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Tuning the reactivity of uranium towards small molecules in multimetallic complexes

Nadir Jori

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

Multiple Surface Site Three-Dimensional Structure Determination of a Supported Molecular Catalyst

Pierrick Berruyer

The structural characterization of supported molecular catalysts is challenging due to the low density of active sites and the presence of several organic/organometallic surface groups resulting from the often complex surface chemistry associated with supp ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Arene-ruthenium(II) complexes with pyrazole-based ligands bearing a pyridine moiety: Synthesis, structure, DFT calculations, and cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Mouna Hadiji

Two pyrazole-based ligands bearing a pyridine moiety, 3-methyl-1-(pyridin-2-yl)-5-pyrazolone (HLpy), and 3methyl-1-(pyridin-2-yl)-4-trifluoroacetyl-5-pyrazolone (HQpy,CF3), were prepared and fully characterized in the solid-state and the tautomerism of bot ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Photo- and thermally-induced electronic and structural dynamics in perovskites and transition metal oxides

Oliviero Cannelli

In this thesis, we exploited optical and X-ray pump-probe methods in a synergistic approach to study the interplay of the electronic, spin and structural degrees of freedom in two class of complex systems relevant for solar energy conversion applications: ...

EPFL2021

Chelating agents as coating molecules for iron oxide nanoparticles

Heinrich Hofmann, Josefina Adriana Maria Bastiaansen, Marijana Mionic Ebersold, Débora Bonvin

Due to their high chemical affinity towards metal ions, chelating agents (CAs) have been used for decades for water purification, but also for protection against metal intoxication and in nanomedicine as linking molecules at the surface of nanoparticles. H ...

RSC Publishing2017

Base-Free Transfer Hydrogenation with an Ionic-Liquid-Supported Ruthenium eta(6)-Arene Bis(pyrazolyl)methane Catalyst

Francisco Sepulveda, Paul Joseph Dyson, Andrew Douglas Phillips

Ruthenium complexes of the type [RuCl(eta(6)-arene)-(NN)]X (X = BF4 or BPh4) featuring an eta(6)-arene ligand modified with an imidazolium ring and incorporating the bis(azo) chelating (NN) ligands 2-hydroxyphenylbis(3,5-dimethylpyrazol-1-yl) methane or 2- ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Synthesis of molecular complexes for small molecule activation

Julie Renée Michelle Andrez

The redox chemistry of f-elements is drawing the attention of inorganic chemists due to their unusual reaction pathways. Notably low-valent f-element complexes have been shown to be able to activate small molecules such as CO2 and N2 in mild conditions. Co ...

EPFL2016

Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory-Organometallic Anticancer Compounds

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Emilia Paunescu, Mylène Soudani

Compounds that combine metal-based drugs with covalently linked targeted organic agents have been shown, in some instances, to exhibit superior anticancer properties compared to the individual counterparts. Within this framework, we prepared a series of or ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Dinuclear DOTA-Based Gd-III Chelates - Revisiting a Straightforward Strategy for Relaxivity Improvement

Lothar Helm, Shima Karimi

The need for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents with improved relaxivity maintains the development of new Gd-III chelates as an intensive and demanding field of research. In this work, we introduce the new dimeric chelators bis{1,4,7,10-tetra ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Potential of Cycloaddition Reactions To Generate Cytotoxic Metal Drugs In Vitro

Paul Joseph Dyson, Sviatlana Siankevich, Benjamin Samuel Murray

Severe general toxicity issues blight many chemotherapeutics utilized in the treatment of cancers, resulting in the need for more selective drugs able to exert their biological activity at only the required location(s). Toward this aim, we report the devel ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Cytotoxicity of ruthenium-arene complexes containing B-ketoamine ligands

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel

New ruthenium(II) arene derivatives (arene = p-cymene, benzene, hexamethylbenzene) containing beta-ketoamine ligands L' (HL' in general; in detail, HLph,ph = (4Z)-3-methyl-4-((phenylamino)(phenyl)methylene)-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-one, HLnaph,ph = (4Z)-3 ...

American Chemical Society2013

H-1 and O-17 NMR Relaxometric and Computational Study on Macrocyclic Mn(II) Complexes

Lothar Helm

Herein we report a detailed H-1 and O-17 relaxometric investigation of Mn(II) complexes with cyclenbased ligands such as 2-(1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecan-1-yl)acetic acid (DO IA), 2,2 '-(1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,4-diyI)diacetic acid (1,4-DO2A), 2,2 ...

American Chemical Society2013

Dinuclear Gd(III) Polyaminocarboxylates as Building Blocks for MRI Contrast Agents

Bibimaryam Mousavi

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique is at the forefront of biomedical and clinical imaging. Its superb spatial resolution, noninvasive nature and use of benign radiation outweigh its intrinsic low detection sensitivity. However paramagnetic relaxers ...

EPFL2013

Lanthanide Complexes Formed with the Tri- and Tetraacetate Derivatives of Bis(aminomethyl)phosphinic Acid: Equilibrium, Kinetic and NMR Spectroscopic Studies

André Merbach, Laurent Quebatte

The lanthanide(III) complexes formed with the tri- and tetraacetate derivatives of bis(aminomethyl)phosphinic acid, L1 and L2, respectively, have been studied by pH potentiometry, spectrophotometry and 1H and 17O NMR spectroscopy. L1 forms [Ln(L1)], [Ln(L1 ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Room-temperature combinatorial screening of cyclometallated iridium(III) complexes for a step towards molecular control of colour purity

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Il Jung

A library of emission spectra of 90 bis-cyclometallated iridium complexes has been obtained using a simple combinatorial approach performed at room temperature. Trends in emission maxima are rationalized using Hammett parameters and invoking inter ligand e ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2011

Mn2+ Complexes with 12-Membered Pyridine Based Macrocycles Bearing Carboxylate or Phosphonate Pendant Arm: Crystallographic, Thermodynamic, Kinetic, Redox, and 1H/17O Relaxation Studies

Lothar Helm

Mn2+ complexes represent an alternative to Gd3+ chelates which are widely used contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging. In this perspective, the authors studied the Mn2+ complexes of two 12-membered, pyridine-contg. macrocyclic ligands bearing one pe ...

2011

Functional Nanostructures Based on Organometallic Half-Sandwich Complexes

Hexanuclear coordination cages of the formula [(C5Me4R)M(C7H3NO 4)]6 (M = Rh, Ir; R = Me, H) were obtained by stepwise reaction of [(C5Me4R)M(μ-Cl)Cl]2 with, first AgOAc and then pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylic acid. Crystallographic analyses show that the cages ...

EPFL2010