Phosphorus Compounds: Advanced Tools in Catalysis and Material Sciences

✍ Scribed by Lee J. Higham (auth.), Maurizio Peruzzini, Luca Gonsalvi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 487
• Series: Catalysis by Metal Complexes 37
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Each chapter of Phosphorus Compounds: Advanced Tools in Catalysis and Material Sciences has been carefully selected by the editors in order to represent a state-of-the-art overview of how phosphorus chemistry can
provide solutions in various fields of applications.

The editors have assembled an international array of world-renowned
scientists and each chapter is written by experts in the fields of synthetic
chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, dendrimers, theoretical calculations,
materials science, and medicinal chemistry with a special focus on the
chemistry of phosphorus compounds.

Phosphorus Compounds: Advanced Tools in Catalysis and Material
Sciences is of interest to a general readership ranging from advanced
university course students to experts in academia and industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
The Primary Phosphine Renaissance....Pages 1-19
Phosphine Acetylenic Macrocycles and Cages: Synthesis and Reactivity....Pages 21-55
Theoretical Evaluation of Phosphine Effects in Cross-Coupling Reactions....Pages 57-84
Metal Complexes with Anionic Polyphosphorus Chains as Potential Precursors for the Synthesis of Metal Phosphides....Pages 85-119
Phosphine-Containing Planar Chiral Ferrocenes: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry and Applications to Asymmetric Catalysis....Pages 121-149
Phosphinine-Based Ligands in Homogeneous Catalysis: State of the Art and Future Perspectives....Pages 151-181
Aqueous Phase Reactions Catalysed by Transition Metal Complexes of 7-Phospha-1,3,5-triazaadamantane (PTA) and Derivatives....Pages 183-212
Synthesis of Phosphorus Compounds via Metal-Catalyzed Addition of P–H Bond to Unsaturated Organic Molecules....Pages 213-264
Phosphorus-Containing Dendrimers: Uses as Catalysts, for Materials, and in Biology....Pages 265-303
Chiral Phosphorus Ligands for Enantioselective Enyne Cycloisomerizations....Pages 305-341
Coordination-Driven Supramolecular Assembly of Phosphole-Based π-Conjugated Ligands....Pages 343-373
Phosphorus Based Macrocyclic Ligands: Synthesis and Applications....Pages 375-444
Metal Phosphorus Complexes as Antitumor Agents....Pages 445-461
Back Matter....Pages 463-469

✦ Subjects

Catalysis; Materials Science, general; Inorganic Chemistry