Photoinitiated Charge Transfer in a Triangular Silver(I) Hydride Complex and Its Oxophilicity

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue are the research groups of Rolf Diller, Gereon Niedner‐Schatteburg, Christoph Riehn and Werner R. Thiel from the TU Kaiserslautern (TUK) and the group of Wim Klopper of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) collaborating within the research center “3MET” (SFB/TRR 88). The image depicts the photoinitiated charge transfer within a phosphine‐stabilized triangular silver hydride complex. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.201901981.

Toward the Design and Construction of Supramolecular Functional Molecular Materials Based on Metal–Metal Interactions

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Recyclable Silver-Catalyzed Selective Hydrogenation of Imides to Primary Amines via Dual C–N Bond Cleavage

“…On the basis of the results of the control experiments, the mechanism of the reaction is shown in Scheme . The H–H bond of H 2 was activated by splitting Ag/TiO 2 to generate catalytic active species Ag n -H, which reduced N -alkyl phthalimide 1 to 2-alkyl-3-hydroxyisoindolin-1-one 6 . Intermediate 6 was isomerized to an aldehyde species, followed by the reduction to intermediate 7 .…”