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Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation and Unexpected Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation at Adjacent Metal Centres
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The formation of carbon–carbon (C–C) bonds is central to the transformation of small, readily available hydrocarbons into value-added products with useful chemical and physical properties. An important industrial process involving C–C bond formation is the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process which...
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Spring 2012
The facile cleavage of relatively inert chemical bonds followed by their functionalization into value-added products is an important goal in chemistry. Although monometallic complexes are effective at both the cleavage of inert bonds and the subsequent functionalization of the activated...
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Spring 2012
The study of heterobimetallic complexes (having two different metal atoms) involves combining the unique properties of each metal, which can give rise to interesting contrasts in reactivity compared to either metal alone. With two different metals incorporated into one complex, a more diverse...
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Spring 2011
Molecular transition metal catalysts offer unique potential for the production of fine chemicals. Chemical processes carried out in the presence of well defined molecular catalysts often only require mild, easily accessible conditions, fewer sacrificial reagents, and can selectively produce a...
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Fall 2009
The use of transition metal catalysts - either homogeneous (discrete well-defined metal complexes) or heterogeneous (more poorly-defined metal surfaces) - play an important role in the transformations of small substrates into larger, value-added compounds. Although heterogeneous catalysts have...