Metal hydride complexes are key intermediates for N-alkylation of amines with alcohols by borrowing hydrogen/hydrogen autotransfer (BH/HA) strategy. Reactivity tuning of metal hydride complexes could adjust the dehydrogenation of alcohols...
The Cope rearrangement of 2,3-divinyloxiranes, a rare example of epoxide C-C bond cleavage, results in 4,5-dihydrooxepines which are amenable to hydrolysis, furnishing 1,6-dicarbonyl compounds containing two contiguous stereocenters at the 3- and 4- positions. We employ...
The first examples of enantiopure, dinuclear magnesium(i) and magnesium(ii) hydride complexes have been kinetically stabilised using bulky chiral β-diketiminate and amidinate ligands (see picture).
A trinuclear strontium hydride [(Me4TACD)3Sr3(µ2-H)4(thf)][B(C6H3-3,5-Me2)4]2 (Me4TACD = 1,4,7,10-tetramethyl-tetraazacyclododecane) and a mixed calcium strontium hydride [(Me4TACD)2CaSr(µ-H)2(thf)]2+ were isolated by hydrogenolysis of cationic benzyl precursors. A solution of [(Me4TACD)2CaSr(µ-H)2(thf)][B(C6H3-3,5-Me2)4]2 shows hydride ligand...
Cover Feature: A General Strategy for Open-Flask Alkene Isomerization by Ruthenium Hydride Complexes with Non-Redox Metal Salts (ChemCatChem 20/2017)
