Organometallic chemistry and related catalysis
A selection of recent Dalton Transactions Perspectives, Frontiers and papers on organometallic chemistry and related catalysis

Dalton Discussion 12: Catalytic C-H and C-X Bond Activation
16 June 2010
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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
Dalton Transactions shines the spotlight on catalysis
28 November 2007
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Perspectives
Organo-f-element catalysts for efficient and highly selective hydroalkoxylation and hydrothiolation
Charles J. Weiss and Tobin J. Marks, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 6576
DOI: 10.1039/c003089a
Phospha-organic chemistry: from molecules to polymers
Joshua I. Bates, Julien Dugal-Tessier and Derek P. Gates, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 3151
DOI: 10.1039/b918938f
Rational design of diphosphorus ligands – a route to superior catalysts
Jason A. Gillespie, Deborah L. Dodds and Paul C. J. Kamer, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 2751
DOI: 10.1039/b913778e
Recent progress in olefin polymerization catalyzed by transition metal complexes: new catalysts and new reactions
Daisuke Takeuchi, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 311
DOI: 10.1039/b911992b
Frontiers
Hydroamination reactions by metal triflates: Brønsted acid vs. metal catalysis?
Jason G. Taylor, Luis A. Adrio and King Kuok (Mimi) Hii, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 1171
DOI: 10.1039/b918970j
Communications
Isolation of a uranyl amide by
ate
complex formation
Lani A. Seaman, David D. Schnaars, Guang Wu and Trevor W. Hayton, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 6635
DOI: 10.1039/c001976c
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
Synthesis and exchange reactions of Ni-dimine-COD, acetylene and olefin complexes
Michael J. Sgro and Douglas W. Stephan, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 5786
DOI: 10.1039/c001312a
Towards multistranded molecular wires: Syntheses, structures, and reactivities of tetraplatinum bis(polyynediyl) complexes with
Pt-Cx-Pt-(P(CH2)3P)2-Pt-Cx-Pt-(P(CH2)3P
)2 cores (x = 4, 6, 8)
Gareth R. Owen, Sébastien Gauthier, Nancy Weisbach, Frank Hampel, Nattamai Bhuvanesh and John A. Gladysz, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 5260
DOI: 10.1039/c002041a
Coordination polymerization of renewable butyrolactone-based vinyl monomers by lanthanide and early metal catalysts
Garret M. Miyake, Stacie E. Newton, Wesley R. Mariott and Eugene Y.-X. Chen, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 6710
DOI: 10.1039/c001909g
Syntheses and structures of bora-amidinate lanthanide(III) complexes
Sjoerd Harder, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 6677
DOI: 10.1039/c001966f
Palladium(II) and platinum(II) complexes bearing a
3SCS pincer ligand with an azulene unit
Junpei Kuwabara, Goro Munezawa, Ken Okamoto and Takaki Kanbara, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 6255
DOI: 10.1039/c002908d
Phosphorus stabilized carbene complexes: bisphosphonate dianion synthesis, reactivity and DFT studies of O
C
O zirconium(IV) complexes
Hadrien Heuclin, Dan Grünstein, Xavier-Frederic Le Goff, Pascal Le Floch and Nicolas Mézailles, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 492
DOI: 10.1039/b915468j
Group 3 metal complexes supported by tridentate pyridine- and thiophene-linked bis(naphtholate) ligands: synthesis, structure, and use in stereoselective ring-opening polymerization of racemic lactide and
-butyrolactone
Ekaterina Grunova, Evgueni Kirillov, Thierry Roisnel and Jean-François Carpentier, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 6739
DOI: 10.1039/b920283h
Palladium and iridium complexes with a N,P,N-bis(pyridine)phenylphosphine ligand
Shaofeng Liu, Riccardo Peloso and Pierre Braunstein, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 2563
DOI: 10.1039/b919679j
