Group Structures

Preface

Dear Visitor,

The following pages represent our favorite list of structures from the Mindiola lab. These structures have been hand picked from our current library of published structures. The molecules presented in this book of structural memoirs are the group's top choices and by no means represent an accurate account of great moieties discovered by us or others. Many of these systems have challenged current archetypes of structure, bonding, and reactivity, and often represent an unnatural "first" in the context of organotransition chemistry. Some of these systems are exceedingly reactive and our group is now beginning to uncover some of their reaction potential as well as catalytic activity. We hope you enjoy our top list of molecular structures.

Best wishes,

Daniel J. Mindiola

Four-Coordinate Titanium Alkylidene First Titanium Phosphinidene First Terminal Vanadium Phosphinidene 1 First Terminal Vanadium Phosphinidene 2 An Efficient Carboamination Catalyst	A Cobalt(I) Diamond Core Complex A Cobalt(-1) Dinitrogen Dianion Complex A Product Resulting From Double Tertiary C-H Activation The First Ti(IV) Fluorobenzene Adduct The Product Resulting From The Ring-Opening Metathesis of Pyridine with a Titanium Alkylidyne	A Titanium Imide Carboamination Precatalyst A Latent Low Coordinate Titanium Imide A Zwitterionic Titanium Imide Complex A Four-Coordinate Titanium Imide The Phenyl Product Resulting from C-H Activation of Benzene
A Titanium Alkylidyne Synthon A Scandium Triethylborohydride Complex Another Example of a Four-Coordinate Titanium Alkylidene A Four-Coordinate Titanium Trimethylsilylimide Complex A Computed Titanium Alkylidyne Molecule		A Novel Tripodal ligand Coordinated to Co(I) The First Four-Coordinate Vanadium(IV) Alkylidene Complex The Only and First Four-Coordinate Vanadium Alkylidyne COmplex A Zr(IV) Tris-Triflato Complex