• Catalytic Activity of trans-​Bis(pyridine)​gold Complexes 

      Holta, Ann Christin Reiersølmoen; Csokas, Daniel; Øien-Ødegaard, Sigurd; Vanderkooy, Alan; Gupta, Arvind Kumar; Carlsson, Anna-Carin C.; Orthaber, Andreas; Fiksdahl, Anne; Pàpai, Imre; Erdélyi, Máté (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Gold catalysis has become one of the fastest growing fields in chemistry, providing new organic transformations and offering excellent chemoselectivities under mild reaction conditions. Methodological developments have ...
    • Catalytic studies of cyclometalated gold(III) complexes and their related UiO-67 MOF 

      Levchenko, Vladimir; Siah, Huey-San Melanie; Øien-Ødegaard, Sigurd; Kaur, Gurpreet; Fiksdahl, Anne; Tilset, Mats (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Cyclometalated gold(III) complexes Au(L)(OAcF)2 (L = phenylpyridine dicarboxylic diester (ppyde) or phenylpyridine dicarboxylic acid (ppydc)) have been prepared reacting Au(OAc)3 with corresponding phenyl pyridines (ppyde ...
    • Symmetry of three-center, four-electron bonds 

      Holta, Ann Christin Reiersølmoen; Battaglia, Stefano; Øien-Ødegaard, Sigurd; Gupta, Arvind Kumar; Fiksdahl, Anne; Lindh, Roland; Erdélyi, Máté (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Three-center, four-electron bonds provide unusually strong interactions; however, their nature remains ununderstood. Investigations of the strength, symmetry and the covalent versus electrostatic character of three-center ...
    • Synthesis of magnesium complexes of ionic liquids with highly coordinating anion 

      Kallidanthiyil Chellappan, Lethesh; Fiksdahl, Anne; Jayasayee, Kaushik; Øien-Ødegaard, Sigurd (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Magnesium(II) complexes, [Mg2+(hfac−)3][Cation+], were prepared as solids from hydrophobic hexafluoroacetylacetonate ionic liquids ([Cation+][hfac−] ILs) and Mg(Tf2N)2. 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium ([C4mim]), N-butylpyridinium ...