Construction of carbon chains on ruthenium and osmium carbonyl clusters

A convenient synthesis of acetylenes: catalytic substitutions of acetylenic hydrogen with bromoalkenes, iodoarenes and bromopyridines

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Development of Pd–Cu catalyzed cross-coupling of terminal acetylenes with sp2-carbon halides

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Elemental Carbon Chain Bridging Two Iron Centers: Syntheses and Spectroscopic Properties of [Cp*(dppe)Fe-C4-FeCp*(dppe)]n+.cntdot.n[PF6]-. X-ray Crystal Structure of the Mixed Valence Complex (n = 1)

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Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Crystal Structure +14

Consanguineous Families of Coordinated Carbon:  A ReC₄Re Assembly That Is Isolable in Three Oxidation States, Including Crystallographically Characterized ReC⋮CC⋮CRe and⁺ReCCCCRe⁺Adducts and a Radical Cation in Which Charge Is Delocalized between Rhenium Termini

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Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry +15

Oxidation Chemistry of Metal-Bonded C₄Chains:  A Combined Chemical, Spectroelectrochemical, and Computational Study

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Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Computational Chemistry +16