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A cunning plan: The rational design of innovative and efficient chemical transformations based on fundamental knowledge constitutes one of the most promising sustainable strategies for the synthesis of organic scaffolds. Herein, the potential of theoretical and experimental knowledge-driven approaches for the sustainable development of transition-metal-catalyzed transformations is shown.

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Jesús Sanjosé-Orduna, Ángel L. Mudarra, Dr. Sara Martínez de Salinas, Dr. Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano
doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201900914

“Soft” Bismuth Working “Hard”! The first example of a highly electrophilic bismuth dication catalyzing olefin hydrosilylation under mild conditions is presented.

[Communications]
Selvakumar Balasubramaniam, Sandeep Kumar, Alex P. Andrews, Babu Varghese, Eluvathingal D. Jemmis, Ajay Venugopal
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900459

A new family of 2D coordination polymers based on 3d-4f 15-metallacrown-5 (MC) units was designed and characterized. The connection of the 15-metallacrown-5 subunits by the coordination of CuII and ligand led to the formation of 2D network of metallacrowns. The GdIII, TbIII, and DyIII complexes exhibit slow magnetic relaxation, and the DyIII complex is a single-molecule magnet under 1000 Oe dc field.

[Communications]
Hong-Gang Zhang, Hua Yang, Lei Sun, Da-Cheng Li, Jian-Min Dou
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900188

A new 2D hybrid [(C3H12N2O)CdCl4]n exhibits a reversible phase transition at a high temperature of 393 K with a switchable dielectric state between low and high temperature, which has a direct band gap with a value close to 4.40 eV.

[Communications]
Chang-Feng Wang, Xiao-Wei Fan, Yu-Hui Tan, Wen-Juan Wei, Yun-Zhi Tang
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900493

Dimesityl(propynyl)phosphane reacts with the halogenoboranes X-B(C6F5)2 (X: Cl, Br) by means of an addition/rearrangement sequence to give X-P/B Lewis pairs. These react with two alkynyllithium equivalents to form the alkynyl borato phospholes.

[Full Papers]
Jennifer Möricke, Atsushi Ueno, Birgit Wibbeling, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Gerald Kehr, Gerhard Erker
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900505

The sulfonate group has a role in the interaction of the Au(III) complex with lysozyme by inhibiting ligand cleavage via the participation in Coulombic and H-bond interactions. The Au(III) complex incorporating a sulfonate group exhibited antifungal activity against C. neoformansvar. grubii, perfect compatibility with the blood components, and non-cytotoxicity to non-malignant cell HEK293.

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Ahmed M. Mansour, Ola R. Shehab
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900155

Electrically conducting zirconium-based MOF (Zr-MOF)-carbon nanotube (CNT) nanocomposites were synthesized at room temperature. Redox-active manganese sites were then installed in the Zr-MOF and nanocomposites to enable redox hopping in the MOF phase. The Mn-decorated Zr-MOF-CNT nanocomposites show much higher pseudocapacitive performance than both the Mn-decorated Zr-MOF and the Mn-decorated CNT.

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Yi-Sen Wang, Yu-Chuan Chen, Jun-Hong Li, Chung-Wei Kung
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900584

Computations show that the coordination to Mo of ethyl vinyl or divinyl ethers by a terminal vinyl carbon is by far more favorable than routes involving the complexation to ether oxygen or end ethyl carbon. The Mo-vinyl coordination significantly activates the vinyl carbon directly linked to ether oxygen, thus making easier the nucleophilic attack of the hydroxo ligand.

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Daniel Álvarez, Elena Castro-López, Yoana Fernández-Pulido, M. Isabel Menéndez, Ramón López
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900513

Readily available biomass-derived ligands significantly improved the catalytic activity of [(η6-p-cymene)RuCl2]2 for ortho C-H bond activation/arylation of 2-phenylpyridine with a variety of (hetero)aryl chlorides under water-based reaction conditions. The ligand levulinic acid achieved 7-fold enhancement, as the ligand-assisted route is energetically more favorable.

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Chinky Binnani, Shyama Charan Mandal, Biswarup Pathak, Sanjay K. Singh
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900218

Nanoscale surface chemistry was used to direct the self-assembly of TiO2 anatase nanocubes into a three-dimensional superlattice. High nanocrystal solubility induced by 3,4-dihydroxyhydrocinnamic acid and weak electrostatic attraction due to surface charge and NH4+ counterions led to the formation of colloidal crystals with a high degree of translational and orientational order.

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Hannah Huesmann, Eugen Schechtel, Ingo Lieberwirth, Martin Panthöfer, Wolfgang Tremel
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900376

Anodization of tin foils in buffered oxalic acid at low voltages leads to the formation of oriented layers of sub-microsized SnO2 plates, whose orientation is related to the domains of the underlying polycrystalline, but oriented β-Sn foil. Under UV illumination the structured SnO2 surface shows self-cleaning behavior.

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Nils Mohri, Hannes Kerschbaumer, Thorben Link, Rute Andre, Martin Panthöfer, Vadim Ksenofontov, Wolfgang Tremel
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900348

Salt (PPN+)2{FeII(TPyzPzEt8)4- (ZnCl2)2}2- was obtained by reducing iron(II) octaethyltetrapyrazinoporphyrazine with zinc dust. The coordination of ZnCl2 units to meso- and pyrazine nitrogen atoms of the TPyzPzEt8 macrocycle is observed for the first time allowing to increase acceptor properties of the macrocycle.

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Maxim A. Faraonov, Nikita R. Romanenko, Alexey V. Kuzmin, Dmitri V. Konarev, Alexander F. Shestakov, Pavel A. Stuzhin, Salavat S. Khasanov, Akihiro Otsuka, Hideki Yamochi, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Rimma N. Lyubovskaya
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900511

The influence of biomolecules on the activity and stability of biosynthesized Au/TS-1 catalysts for propylene epoxidation is reported for the first time.

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Ting Lian, Wei Zeng, Hai Liu, Jing Yu, Jiale Huang, Haitao Wang, Daohua Sun
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900397

Electron-rich organoplatinum complexes can form intramolecular or intermolecular OH··Pt hydrogen bonds, but formation of hydroplatinum(IV) complexes requires a strong acid such as HCl.

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Ava Behnia, Mahmood Azizpoor Fard, Paul D. Boyle, Richard J. Puddephatt
doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900480

The reliability of single molecule switches is improved by better separating the molecule's functional subunit from the electrode surface. Both, increasing the spacing and insulation by bulky substituents contributed to increase the likeliness of spin cross-over events in immobilized iron(II) terpyridine complexes.

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Thomas Brandl, Maria El Abbassi, Davide Stefani, Riccardo Frisenda, Gero D. Harzmann, Herre S. J. van der Zant, Marcel Mayor
doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201900432

Three methods are described for the synthesis of both enantiomers of optically active pelletierine. The usefulness of these compounds as building blocks is demonstrated in the asymmetric syntheses of several piperidine-based compounds of interest.

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Raed K. Zaidan, Paul Evans
doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201900477

A domino [Pd]-catalyzed intramolecular Heck cyclization followed by intermolecular phosphorylation, for the construction of phosphorus containing heterocyclic compounds, is presented. Notably, the process is accelerated by microwave heating conditions and enabled the construction of C-C and C-P bonds in short reaction times.

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Karu Ramesh, Gedu Satyanarayana
doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201900510

A systematic comparison of Lewis acid catalysts [Ca(II), Li(I) and Fe(III)] is presented for catalytic Friedel-Crafts reactions using alcohols on 4-, 5-, and 6-membered oxygen and nitrogen heterocycles and cyclobutanes, forming gem-diaryl quaternary centers.

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Rosemary A. Croft, Maryne A. J. Dubois, Alexander J. Boddy, Camille Denis, Anna Lazaridou, Anne Sophie Voisin-Chiret, Ronan Bureau, Chulho Choi, James J. Mousseau, James A. Bull
doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201900498

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