Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yan Lin, Harley Betts, Sarah Keller, Kevin Cariou, Gilles Gasser
Summary: This review explores the potential of metal-based antifungal agents in improving bioavailability and treating fungal infections by combining organic moieties with metal ions. Additionally, coordination of metal ions can expand the library of antifungal drugs available, providing more treatment options for medical professionals.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Rain Ng, Man-Chun Chong, Wai-Man Cheung, Herman H-Y Sung, Ian D. Williams, Wa-Hung Leung
Summary: Heterometallic mu-nitrido complexes have been synthesized from organometallic complexes containing O/S-donor ligands and a ruthenium(VI) nitride. The bonding in these complexes is described as double bond character of the Ir-N-(nitride) bonds. The reactions of these complexes with other ligands and reagents were also studied.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Thimma Subramanian Prathima, Badruzzaman Choudhury, Md. Gulzar Ahmad, Kaushik Chanda, M. M. Balamurali
Summary: Numerous biologically active metal complexes have been reported for their unique features and enhanced functions in inhibiting cancer progression. However, many of these drugs have failed at various levels of clinical trials despite performing well in the laboratory.
COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Chaohuang Chen, Gerald Kehr, Gerhard Erker
Summary: Negatively charged borataalkenes and neutral boraalkenes are isolable organoelement compounds containing BC double bonds. The use of strongly electron withdrawing fluoroaryl substituents at boron greatly facilitates their preparation. The presence of fluoroaryl groups on boranes enhances the acidity of a-CH, promoting the formation of borataalkenes through deprotonation. Synthetic routes involving B-H borenium cations with fluoroaryl groups have been developed to produce reactive boraalkenes. Both borataalkenes and boraalkenes can serve as p-ligands in organometallic and coordination chemistry.
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Awal Noor
Summary: Stabilization of transition metals in unusually low coordination numbers has been a challenging area of interest in coordination chemistry. The use of appropriate sterically bulky ligands enables the isolation and exploration of such rare species, allowing for the study of their bonding and chemical reactivity. The fine tuning of ligand design, balancing bulk and electronic effects, plays a crucial role in determining their reactivity. Despite synthetic difficulties, the isolation and characterization of these low coordinate transition metal complexes have received significant attention in recent years. This review discusses the synthetic approaches and the establishment of their geometric and electronic structures using advanced spectroscopic techniques in the past decade.
COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Physical
Soumyadeep Chakrabortty, Ahmad A. Almasalma, Johannes G. de Vries
Summary: The recent literature review on asymmetric hydroformylation focuses on ligand development, with significant progress seen in the area of hybrid bidentate ligands containing one P-chiral phosphine and bidentate P-chiral phosphine ligands. Other hybrid bidentate ligands have also led to promising results. The use of chiral bisphosphine ligands has been highly successful, while lower enantioselectivities have been observed with BINOL-based monodentate phosphites and phosphoramidites. The substrate scope has been greatly expanded to include 1,1-disubstituted alkenes.
CATALYSIS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Andrew C. Benniston, Lingli Zeng
Summary: This perspective article provides an overview of recent studies on metal-based complexes with ligands that are expelled under light activation, focusing primarily on ligands with potential biological activity and therapeutic applications.
DALTON TRANSACTIONS
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Johan L. M. Bjoerkegren, Aldons J. Lusis
Summary: This article reviews the current understanding of the molecular, cellular, genetic, and environmental contributions to atherosclerosis and highlights recent developments and unexpected biological findings, such as the heterogeneity of inflammatory and smooth muscle cells in lesions, the roles of senescence and clonal hematopoiesis, and the links to the gut microbiome.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sebastian J. K. Forrest, Bastian Schluschass, Ekaterina Y. Yuzik-Klimova, Sven Schneider
Summary: The Haber-Bosch process, with its high carbon footprint, has sparked interest in alternative strategies for nitrogen fixation. Recent studies have shown that various metal compounds can effectively split N-2 at ambient conditions, offering potential for synthesizing nitrogen-containing products.
Review
Chemistry, Organic
Sudipta Ponra, Bernard Boudet, Phannarath Phansavath, Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal
Summary: This review summarizes the recent work on the catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral olefins, focusing on the development of new catalytic systems and the extension of these asymmetric reductions to new classes of enamides.
SYNTHESIS-STUTTGART
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Shanmugam Revathi, Preethi Raja, Sayantani Saha, Moris S. Eisen, Tapas Ghatak
Summary: In recent years, significant progress has been made in the field of actinide chemistry using N-heterocyclic iminato ligands, particularly in relation to light actinide metal ions. These complexes show potential catalytic activity with oxygen-containing substrates and have promising applications.
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Review
Food Science & Technology
Jiaojiao Zhou, Jilai Jia, Jiangling He, Jinjie Li, Jie Cai
Summary: Food safety issues pose a significant threat to public health and require accurate, efficient, sensitive, and economical detection methods. Cyclodextrins (CDs), with their non-toxic and non-caloric properties, have shown promise in enhancing stability and selectively capturing target molecules for improved food detection sensitivity.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Irwin K. Cheah, Barry Halliwell
Summary: There has been a recent surge of interest in the unique low molecular weight dietary thiol/thione, ergothioneine, which can accumulate at high levels in the body from diet and may play important physiological roles in human health and development. Blood levels of ergothioneine decline with age and onset of various diseases. Recent advances have been made in our knowledge of ergothioneine.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sanjeev Kushwaha, Jayashree Parthiban, Sanjay Kumar Singh
Summary: This article extensively reviews transition-metal-based molecular catalysts for reversible CO2 hydrogenation and FA dehydrogenation, with emphasis on their application in carbon-neutral hydrogen storage and release. The specific interaction between catalysts and substrates in the CO2 hydrogenation-FA dehydrogenation pathway is highlighted.
Review
Chemistry, Applied
Kamal M. Dawood, Kotohiro Nomura
Summary: This review article summarizes the effects of different catalysts on Z-selective olefin metathesis reactions and the essential roles of ligand modifications in achieving stereospecific reactions.
ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS
(2021)
