Organometallic chemistry and related catalysis
A selection of recent Dalton Transactions Perspectives, Frontiers and papers on organometallic chemistry and related catalysis
Themed Issue: Metal-Catalysed Polymerisation
15 October 2009
Carmen Claver and Barbara Milani are the guest editors of this themed issue dealing with the ommipresent topic of metal-catalysed polymerisation
Themed Issue: N-heterocyclic carbenes
26 August 2009
Ekkehardt Hahn is the guest editor of this themed issue which focuses on the highly topical area of N-heterocyclic carbenes

Call for Papers: Organo-f-element Chemistry
03 September 2009
Submit an article to this Dalton Transactions themed issue. Submission deadline: 28 January 2010
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28 November 2007
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Perspectives
Transition metal catalysed reactions of alcohols using borrowing hydrogen methodology
Tracy D. Nixon, Michael K. Whittlesey and Jonathan M. J. Williams, Dalton Trans., 2009, 753
DOI: 10.1039/b813383b
Activation of late transition metal catalysts for olefin polymerizations and olefin/CO copolymerizations
Timo M. J. Anselment, Sergej I. Vagin and Bernhard Rieger, Dalton Trans., 2008, 4537
DOI: 10.1039/b802913j
Transformation of polymerization of polar vinyl monomers by discrete and hybrid metal catalysts
Eugene Y.-X. Chen, Dalton Trans., 2009, 8784
DOI: 10.1039/b912640f
New application for metallocene catalysts in olefin polymerization
Walter Kaminsky, Andreas Funck and Heinrich Hähnsen, Dalton Trans., 2009, 8803
DOI: 10.1039/b910542p
Fused polycyclic nucleophilic carbenes – synthesis, structure, and function
Anthony J. Arduengo, III and Luigi I. Iconaru, Dalton Trans., 2009, 6903
DOI: 10.1039/b907211j
Frontiers
Chromium-catalysed ethene trimerisation and tetramerisation—breaking the rules in olefin oligomerisation
Duncan F. Wass, Dalton Trans., 2007, 816
DOI: 10.1039/b616291f
Communications
Activation of a bis(phenoxy-amine) precatalyst for olefin polymerisation: first evidence for an outer sphere ion pair with the methylborate counterion
Gianluca Ciancaleoni, Natascia Fraldi, Peter H. M. Budzelaar, Vincenzo Busico and Alceo Macchioni, Dalton Trans., 2009, 8824
DOI: 10.1039/b908805a
On the mechanism of isospecific epoxide polymerization by salen cobalt(III) complexes: Evidence for solid-state catalysis
Hiroharu Ajiro, Kathryn L. Peretti, Emil B. Lobkovsky and Geoffrey W. Coates, Dalton Trans., 2009, 8828
DOI: 10.1039/b914573g
Dehydrogenation reactivity of a frustrated carbene–borane Lewis pair
Dirk Holschumacher, Christina Taouss, Thomas Bannenberg, Cristian G. Hrib, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Peter G. Jones and M. Tamm, Dalton Trans., 2009, 6927
DOI: 10.1039/b908074k
Direct observation of a carbonylation reaction relevant to CO/alkene copolymerization in a methylpalladium carbonyl complex containing a bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) ligand
Sri S. Subramanium and LeGrande M. Slaughter, Dalton Trans., 2009, 6930
DOI: 10.1039/b908689g
Papers
Palladation of diimidazolium salts at the C4 position: access to remarkably electron-rich palladium(II) centers
Marion Heckenroth, Evelyne Kluser, Antonia Neels and Martin Albrecht, Dalton Trans., 2008, 6242
DOI: 10.1039/b812405a
Stereoelectronic effects in a homologous series of bidentate cyclic phosphines. A clear correlation of hydroformylation catalyst activity with ring size
Mairi F. Haddow, Ann J. Middleton, A. Guy Orpen, Paul G. Pringle and Rainer Papp, Dalton Trans., 2009, 202
DOI: 10.1039/b815056g
Palladium(II)-catalyzed copolymerization of styrenes with carbon monoxide: mechanism of chain propagation and chain transfer
Francis C. Rix, Michael J. Rachita, Mark I. Wagner, Maurice Brookhart, Barbara Milani and James C. Barborak, Dalton Trans., 2009, 8977
DOI: 10.1039/b911392d
Facile C–S, S–H, and S–S bond cleavage using a nickel(0) NHC complex
Thomas Schaub, Marc Backes, Oliver Plietzsch and Udo Radius, Dalton Trans., 2009, 7071
DOI: 10.1039/b907124p
Platinum(II) mediated Csp3-H activation of tetramethylthiourea
Serena Fantasia, Alessandro Pasini and Steven P. Nolan, Dalton Trans., 2009, 8107
DOI: 10.1039/b911164f
Main-chain organometallic polymers comprising redox-active iron(II) centers connected by ditopic N-heterocyclic carbenes
Laszlo Mercs, Antonia Neels, Helen Stoeckli-Evans and Martin Albrecht, Dalton Trans., 2009, 7168
DOI: 10.1039/b907018d
