• Room Temperature-Stable Magnesium Electride via Ni(II) Reduction 

      Do, Cuong Dat; Day, Craig S.; Odena, Carlota; Benet-Buchholz, Jordi; Xu, Liang; Foroutan-Nejad, Cina; Hopmann, Kathrin Helen; Martin, Ruben (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-13)
      Herein, we report the synthesis of highly reduced bipyridyl magnesium complexes and the first example of a stable organic magnesium electride supported by quantum mechanical computations and X-ray diffraction. These complexes serve as unconventional homogeneous reductants due to their high solubility, modular redox potentials, and formation of insoluble, non-coordinating byproducts. The applicability ...
    • Room-Temperature-Stable Magnesium Electride via Ni(II) Reduction 

      Day, Craig S.; Do, Cuong Dat; Odena, Carlota; Benet-Buchholz, Jordi; Xu, Liang; Foroutan-Nejad, Cina; Hopmann, Kathrin Helen; Martin, Ruben (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-13)
      Herein, we report the synthesis of highly reduced bipyridyl magnesium complexes and the first example of a stable organic magnesium electride supported by quantum mechanical computations and X-ray diffraction. These complexes serve as unconventional homogeneous reductants due to their high solubility, modular redox potentials, and formation of insoluble, noncoordinating byproducts. The applicability ...
    • Titanium isopropoxide-mediated cis-selective synthesis of 3,4-substituted butyrolactones from CO2 

      Sahari, Aleksi; Do, Cuong Dat; Mannisto, Jere K.; Antico, Emanuele; Amaratunga, Angelo; Hopmann, Kathrin Helen; Repo, Timo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-14)
      We report a Ti(OiPr)4-mediated multicomponent reaction, which produces 3,4-substituted cis-d-lactones from alkyl magnesium chloride, benzaldehyde and CO<sub>2</sub>. The key intermediate, titanacyclopropane, is formed in situ from Ti(OiPr)4 and a Grignard reagent, which enables 1,2-dinucleophilic reactivity that is used to insert carbon dioxide and an aldehyde. An alternative reaction route ...