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Valentine P. Ananikov

Unusually large ‘yaw’ angle upon coordination of a new bulky unsymmetrical 3-hydroxyadamantyl-functionalized N-heterocyclic carbene ligand to rhodium(I)

Julien Petit, Paul-Alexis Pavard and Clement Camp

3-Amino-1,2,4-triazolium salts as NHC-proligands: synthesis and postmodification of a new type of amino-functionalized Pd/NHC complexes

Dmitry V. Pasyukov, Andrey Yu. Chernenko, Konstantin E. Shepelenko, Vadim V. Kutyrev, Victor N. Khrustalev and Victor M. Chernyshev

Toward N-heterocyclic carbene stabilized zinc sulfides

Matthew M. D. Roy, Samuel R. Baird, Michael J. Ferguson and Eric Rivard

Nature of metal–NHC bonds in some potential anticancer [(NHC(R))2M]+ (M = CuI, AgI, AuI, R = n-propyl, n-butyl, n-pentyl, n-hexyl, n-heptyl, n-octyl, n-nonyl, n-decyl) complexes

Bahareh Naderizadeh and Mehdi Bayat

Facile synthesis of digermylene oxide and its reactivity towards vanadocene: the first example of Cp2V–germylene coordination

Kseniya V. Arsenyeva, Maxim G. Chegerev, Anton V. Cherkasov, Kira I. Pashanova, Irina V. Ershova, Olesya Yu. Trofimova and Alexandr V. Piskunov

Phosphite-containing iridium polarization transfer catalysts for NMR signal amplification by reversible exchange

Kirill A. Spiridonov, Vitaly P. Kozinenko, Igor A. Nikovsky, Alexander A. Pavlov, Tatyana N. Vol’khina, Yulia V. Nelyubina, Alexey S. Kiryutin, Alexandra V. Yurkovskaya, Alexander A. Polezhaev, Valentin V. Novikov and Konstantin L. Ivanov

NHC PdII complexes for the solvent-free telomerization of isoprene with methanol

Sergey A. Rzhevskiy, Maxim A. Topchiy, Vasilii N. Bogachev, Alexandra A. Ageshina, Lidiya I. Minaeva, Grigorii K. Sterligov, Mikhail S. Nechaev and Andrey F. Asachenko

A lead(II) toluene complex

Julian Messelberger, Piermaria Pinter, Frank W. Heinemann and Dominik Munz

Heterometallic CoII-LII carboxylate complexes with N-heterocyclic carbene, triphenylphosphine and pyridine: a comparative study of magnetic properties

Dmitriy S. Yambulatov, Stanislav A. Nikolaevskii, Maxim A. Shmelev, Konstantin A. Babeshkin, Denis V. Korchagin, Nikolay N. Efimov, Alexander S. Goloveshkin, Pavel A. Petrov, Mikhail A. Kiskin, Maxim N. Sokolov and Igor L. Eremenko

Oxidation-promoted synthesis of ferrocenyl planar chiral rhodium(III) complexes for C–H functionalization catalysis

Julien Cabanes, Maksym Odnoroh, Carine Duhayon, Christian Bijani, Alix Sournia-Saquet, Rinaldo Poli and Agnes Labande