Di-iron dithiolato complexes with 3-bromothiophene moiety: Preparation, structures, and electrochemistry

The reaction of nonacarbonyldiiron with 8‐alkynyloxyquinolines: Alkynyl activation, cyclization via C‐N bond formation, and C‐H bond cleavage

“…Being inspired by the fact that the metallic active sites of hydrogenases (typically, [NiFe]-hydrogenase, [FeFe]hydrogenase, and [Fe]-hydrogenase) possess metal carbonyls, a huge number of nickel and iron carbonyls have been explored in an attempt of finding non-noble-metal catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Particularly, iron carbonyls are also efficient promoters in many organic reactions, for example, hydrogenation, hydrogen-borrowing reactions, hydroboration, hydrosilylation, hydrophosphination, carbonylation, alkylation, cyclization reactions with C-H cleavage and C-C coupling, activation of unsaturated-carbon bonds, et al [11][12][13][14][15] In the past decades or so, iron carbonyls as carbon monoxide-releasing molecules (CORMs), 6,16,17 have emerged in gaseous medicine as CO is not only an important gaseous signaling molecule but also is of therapeutic effects in anti-inflammatory, anti-proliferation, antiapoptosis, anti-hypoxia, vasodilatation, and protections from ischemia-reperfusion. In short, the chemistry of iron carbonyls is so rich, and their applications are so diverse that they continue to attract chemists' attention.…”