Combining phosphinidene units with malonate anion: Synthesis of highly functional phosphine complexes

Malonate anion traps the [RP-W(CO)₅] bridge of 7-phosphanorbornadiene complexes 1–3 to give functional secondary phosphine complexes [RP(H)-CH(CO₂Et)₂]W(CO)₅ ( 7–9 ). Metalation of these complexes by NaH in THF occurs at the malonic CH group, but the alkylation of the resulting carbanions preferentially takes place at phosphorus. When R stands for β-chloroethyl, the corresponding carbanion cyclizes to give the functional phosphirane complex 11 . © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 15:258–262, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/hc.20014     

Optimisation of the ethylene glycol reduction method for the synthesis of platinum-ceria-carbon materials as catalysts for the methanol oxidation reaction

Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry - Novel platinum-ceria-Ketjenblack carbon bifunctional electrocatalysts with flower-shaped ceria crystals were synthesised for conducting the methanol...     

Phase-field simulation of piezoresponse force microscopy in consideration of different environmental conditions

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is a feasible tool which is widely used for investigating information of the domain structures of ferroelectrics. Nevertheless, one drawback of the technique may be that environmental conditions could effect the very small signal which is detected from the displacement of the tip. The present contribution addresses the simulation of PFM in consideration of environmental conditions. We employ a continuum-mechanical model based on the phase-field method which accounts for the transversely isotropic symmetry of the underlying material. The goal of this contribution is to analyze the environmental effect on the tip-sample interaction. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)