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List of works by Robert E. Mulvey

1-Alkali-metal-2-alkyl-1,2-dihydropyridines: Soluble Hydride Surrogates for Catalytic Dehydrogenative Coupling and Hydroboration Applications

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A Record-Breaking Magnesium Hydride Molecular Cluster: Implications for Hydrogen Storage

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A hetero-alkali-metal version of the utility amide LDA: lithium-potassium diisopropylamide

scientific article published on 9 January 2013

A homologous series of regioselectively tetradeprotonated group 8 metallocenes: new inverse crown ring compounds synthesized via a mixed sodium-magnesium tris(diisopropylamide) synergic base

scientific article published in September 2004

A mechanistic study of the C-P bond cleavage reaction of 1,2-(PH2)2-C6H4 with nBuLi/Sb(NMe2)3.

scientific article published on 8 October 2008

A monomeric three-coordinate magnesium bis(amide).

scientific article published on 13 November 2001

A new Na/Mg inverse crown ether

scientific article published on 12 July 2003

A polymeric solvent-free variant of a hydridomagnesium inverse crown

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A structural and computational study of synthetically important alkali-metal/tetramethylpiperidide (TMP) amine solvates

scientific article published in January 2008

A μ4-oxide-containing a dimeric variant of a sodium dialkyl(amido)zincate reagent

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Accessible heavier s-block dihydropyridines: structural elucidation and reactivity of isolable molecular hydride sources

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Accessing low denticity coordination modes of a high denticity tripodal ligand to complete its coordinative repertoire

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Adding a Structural Context to the Deprotometalation and Trans-Metal Trapping Chemistry of Phenyl-Substituted Benzotriazole.

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

After-effects of lithium-mediated alumination of 3-iodoanisole: isolation of molecular salt elimination and trapped-benzyne products

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Alkali-Metal-Mediated Magnesiations of an N-Heterocyclic Carbene: Normal, Abnormal, and “Paranormal” Reactivity in a Single Tritopic Molecule

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Alkali-Metal-Mediated Manganation: A Method for Directly Attaching Manganese(II) Centers to Aromatic Frameworks

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Alkali-Metal-Mediated Synergistic Effects in Polar Main Group Organometallic Chemistry

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Alkali-Metal-Mediated Zincation of Anisole: Synthesis and Structures of Three Instructive Ortho-Zincated Complexes

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Alkali-Metal-Mediated Zincation of Ferrocene: Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of a Lithium Tmp/Zincate Reagent

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Alkali-Metal-Mediated Zincation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Synthesis and Structures of Mono- and Dizincated Naphthalenes

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Alkali-metal-mediated manganation(II) of naphthalenes: constructing metalla-anthracene and metalla-phenanthrene structures

scientific article published in September 2009

Alkali-metal-mediated manganationII of functionalized arenes and applications of ortho-manganated products in Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions with iodobenzene.

scientific article published on January 2008

Alkoxide binding in inverse crown chemistry: rational synthesis of a series of composite alkali metal–magnesium–alkoxide–diisopropylamides

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Ambient temperature zincation of N-Boc pyrrolidine and its solvent dependency

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An Unprecedented Hexapotassium-Hexamagnesium 24-Membered Macrocyclic Amide: A Polymetallic Cationic Host to Six Monodeprotonated Arene Anions This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (Grant award No. GR/M78

scientific article published in June 2000

An alternative picture of alkali-metal-mediated metallation: cleave and capture chemistry ⬇️

scientific article published on May 21, 2013

Avant-garde metalating agents: structural basis of alkali-metal-mediated metalation

scientific article published on June 2009

Backbone Reactivity of Lithium β-Diketiminate (NacNac) Complexes with CO2 , tBuNCO and iPrNCO

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

Bis[(μ-cyclopentylamino-N:N)dimethylaluminium(III)]

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Building an extended inverse crown motif via alkali-metal-mediated alpha-magnesiation of furan

scientific article published in January 2006

Cleave and capture chemistry illustrated through bimetallic-induced fragmentation of tetrahydrofuran

scientific article published on 23 May 2010

Closer insight into the reactivity of TMP-dialkyl zincates in directed ortho-zincation of anisole: experimental evidence of amido basicity and structural elucidation of key reaction intermediates

scientific article published on February 2009

Comparing Neutral (Monometallic) and Anionic (Bimetallic) Aluminum Complexes in Hydroboration Catalysis: Influences of Lithium Cooperation and Ligand Set

scientific article published on 09 July 2018

Concealed cyclotrimeric polymorph of lithium 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide unconcealed: X-ray crystallographic and NMR spectroscopic studies

scientific article published on 9 September 2013

Confinement of halide ions within homologous inverse coordination hosts; modification of halide-ion selectivity

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Contrasting Synergistic Heterobimetallic (Na-Mg) and Homometallic (Na or Mg) Bases in Metallation Reactions of Dialkylphenylphosphines and Dialkylanilines: Lateral versus Ring Selectivities

scientific article published on 20 September 2018

Contrasting the group 6 metal-metal bonding in sodium dichromate(ii) and sodium dimolybdate(ii) polymethyl complexes: synthetic, X-ray crystallographic and theoretical studies

scientific article published in February 2017

Crossing Organolithium Compounds with Organolithium Compounds: Molecular Squares and a Cage-Encapsulating Reaction

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Crystal structure of a heavier alkali metal diisopropylamide complex: a discrete (KN)2 ring dimer with TMEDA chelation and short intramolecular K⋯H(C) contacts

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Crystallographic characterisation of binary alkali metal alkoxide-magnesium bis(alkyl) mixtures: differential binding of Na+ and K+ to a common dinuclear diorganomagnesiate

scientific article published on 29 November 2004

Dehydromethylation of alkali metal salts of the utility amide 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide (TMP)

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Deprotonative metalation using ate compounds: synergy, synthesis, and structure building

scientific article published on January 2007

Developing a hetero-alkali-metal chemistry of 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide (TMP): stoichiometric and structural diversity within a series of lithium/sodium, lithium/potassium and sodium/potassium TMP compounds

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Developing lithium chemistry of 1,2-dihydropyridines: from kinetic intermediates to isolable characterized compounds

scientific article published on 31 August 2015

Dichlorobis(dibenzylamino)bis(tetrahydrofuran)zirconium(IV) toluene hemisolvate

scientific article published on 12 June 2001

Diisopropylamide and TMP turbo-Grignard reagents: a structural rationale for their contrasting reactivities.

scientific article published in April 2010

Direct C-H metalation with chromium(II) and iron(II): transition-metal host/benzenediide guest magnetic inverse-crown complexes.

scientific article published on January 2009

Directed ortho-meta'- and meta-meta'-dimetalations: A template base approach to deprotonation

scientific article published in Science

Directedmeta-Metalation Using Alkali-Metal-Mediated Zincation

scientific article (publication date: 2 June 2006)

Diverse outcomes of CO2 fixation using alkali metal amides including formation of a heterobimetallic lithium-sodium carbamato-anhydride via lithium-sodium bis-hexamethyldisilazide

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Dizincation and dimagnesiation of benzene using alkali-metal-mediated metallation

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Dizincation of a 2-substituted thiophene: constructing a cage with a [16]crown-4 zincocyclic core

scientific article published on 8 June 2012

Donor-activated alkali metal dipyridylamides: co-complexation reactions with zinc alkyls and reactivity studies with benzophenone

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Donor-influenced Structure-Activity Correlations in Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions of Lithium Monoamido-Monohydrido-Dialkylaluminates

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Evaluating cis-2,6-dimethylpiperidide (cis-DMP) as a base component in lithium-mediated zincation chemistry

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Exploiting σ/π Coordination Isomerism to Prepare Homologous Organoalkali Metal (Li, Na, K) Monomers with Identical Ligand Sets

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Exposing elusive cationic magnesium-chloro aggregates in aluminate complexes through donor control

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Facile synthesis of a genuinely alkane-soluble but isolable lithium hydride transfer reagent

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Formation of the Unprecedented Trilithio-Capped Heteroadamantanyl Iminoalane Anion [(HAl)4 (NPh)6 {Li(OEt2 )}3 ]- : An Open Cage Derived from a Rhombododecahedron

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Heterobimetallic metallation studies of N,N-dimethylphenylethylamine (DMPEA): benzylic C–H bond cleavage/dimethylamino capture or intact DMPEA complex

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Hexameric Mg-O stacks with six THF-solvated sodium amide appendages: "super" variants of inverse crown ethers generated by cleavage of THF

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Hydride encapsulation in s-block metal inverse crown chemistry

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Interview with Robert Mulvey ⬇️

scientific article published on April 10, 2012

Isolation and characterisation of the mixed-metal alkyl amide [(TMEDA)Na(mu-Bu)(mu-TMP)Mg(TMP)], an unexpected chelate-trapped intermediate in the formation of inverse crowns

scientific article published on 23 September 2004

Isolation and structural elucidation of a key aluminoaromatic intermediate and evidence for dismutation phenomena in TMP-alumination chemistry.

scientific article published on 12 October 2007

Ketone Deprotonation Mediated by Mono- and Heterobimetallic Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metal Amide Bases: Structural Characterization of Potassium, Calcium, and Mixed Potassium−Calcium Enolates

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Landmark Crystal Structure of an Experimentally Utilized Tetralithium-Tetrapotassium Amide-Alkoxide Superbase

scientific article published on 01 September 2001

Lewis base stabilized lithium TMP-aluminates: an unexpected fragmentation and capture reaction involving cyclic ether 1,4-dioxane

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LiTMP Trans-Metal-Trapping of Fluorinated Aromatic Molecules: A Comparative Study of Aluminum and Gallium Carbanion Traps

scientific article published on 29 June 2017

Lithium Dihydropyridine Dehydrogenation Catalysis: A Group 1 Approach to the Cyclization of Diamine Boranes

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Lithium and aluminium carbamato derivatives of the utility amide 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide

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Lithium diamidodihydridoaluminates: bimetallic cooperativity in catalytic hydroboration and metallation applications

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Lithium, sodium and potassium picolyl complexes: syntheses, structures and bonding

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Lithium-Aluminate-Catalyzed Hydrophosphination Applications

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Main Group Metals for Homogeneous Catalysis

article published in 2017

Main group multiple C-H/N-H bond activation of a diamine and isolation of a molecular dilithium zincate hydride: experimental and DFT evidence for alkali metal-zinc synergistic effects.

scientific article published on 4 August 2011

Manganese(ii)–lithium and –sodium inverse crown ether (ICE) complexes

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Meta-metallation of N,N-dimethylaniline: Contrasting direct sodium-mediated zincation with indirect sodiation-dialkylzinc co-complexation

scientific article published on 06 September 2011

Mixed lithium amide-lithium halide compounds: unusual halide-deficient amido metal anionic crowns

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Modifying alkylzinc reactivity with 2,2'-dipyridylamide: activation of tBu-Zn bonds for para-alkylation of benzophenone

scientific article published on 5 June 2013

Molecular Structures of THF-Solvated Alkali-Metal 2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidides Finally Revealed: X-ray Crystallographic, DFT, and NMR (including DOSY) Spectroscopic Studies

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Monomerizing alkali-metal 3,5-dimethylbenzyl salts with tris(N, N-dimethyl-2-aminoethyl)amine (Me6TREN): structural and bonding implications

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N-Heterocyclic carbene stabilized adducts of alkyl magnesium amide, bisalkyl magnesium and Grignard reagents: trapping oligomeric organo s-block fragments with NHCs

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Neutral zinc, lower-order zincate and higher-order zincate derivatives of pyrrole: synthesis and structural characterisation of zinc complexes with one, two, three or four pyrrolyl ligands

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New reactivity and structural insights of alkali-metal-mediated alumination in directed ortho-alumination of a tertiary aromatic amide

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Organometallic polymers assembled from cation-pi interactions: use of ferrocene as a ditopic linker within the homologous series [{(Me3Si)2NM}2.(Cp2Fe)]infinity (M=Na, K, Rb, Cs; Cp=cyclopentadienyl).

scientific article published on January 2007

Organozinc pivalate reagents: segregation, solubility, stabilization, and structural insights

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Post-Metalation Structural Insights into the Use of Alkali-Metal-Mediated Zincation for Directedortho-Metalation of a Tertiary Aromatic Amide

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Potassium-mediated zincation of ferrocene and ruthenocene: potassium, the architect behind supramolecular structural variations

scientific article published on 30 September 2009

Potassium-zinc induced synergic enhancement of the basicity of hexamethyldisilazide (HMDS) towards methylbenzene molecules

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Pre-Metalation Structural Insights into the Use of Alkali-Metal-Mediated Zincation for Directedortho-Metalation of a Tertiary Aromatic Amide

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Reactions of ammonium salts with butyllithium and with lithium hydride: new routes to fully anhydrous inorganic lithium complexes

scientific article published in 1987

Regioselective Tetrametalation of Ferrocene in a Single Reaction: Extension of s-Block Inverse Crown Chemistry to the d-Block This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council through grant award no GR/M78113.

scientific article published in October 2001

Regioselective heterohalogenation of 4-halo-anisoles via a series of sequential ortho-aluminations and electrophilic halogenations

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Remarkable Reaction of Hetero-S-Block-Metal Amides with Molecular Oxygen: Cationic (NMNMg)2 Ring Products (M=Li or Na) with Anionic Oxo or Peroxo Cores

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

Revealing the remarkable structural diversity of the alkali metal transfer agents of the trans-calix[2]benzene[2]pyrrolide ligand

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Selective meta-deprotonation of toluene by using alkali-metal-mediated magnesiation

scientific article published in May 2005

Selective mono- and dimetallation of a group 3 sandwich complex

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

Single electron transfer (SET) activity of the dialkyl-amido sodium zincate [(TMEDA)·Na(μ-TMP)(μ-tBu)Zn(tBu)] towards TEMPO and chalcone

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Sodium congener of the classical lithium methylchromate dimer: synthetic, X-ray crystallographic, and magnetic studies of Me8Cr2[Na(OEt2)]4.

scientific article published on 12 April 2011

Sodium dialkyl-amidozincates: alkyl or amido bases? An experimental and theoretical case study

scientific article published in May 2005

Sodium-Mediated Manganation: Direct Mono- and Dimanganation of Benzene and Synthesis of a Transition-Metal Inverse-Crown Complex

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Sodium-mediated magnesiation of thiophene and tetrahydrothiophene: structural contrasts with furan and tetrahydrofuran.

scientific article published in August 2010

Split Personality of Lithium Chloride: Recent Salt Effects in Organometallic Recipes

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Stoichiometric and catalytic Sn-mediated dehydrocoupling of primary phosphines

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Stoichiometrically-controlled reactivity and supramolecular storage of butylmagnesiate anions

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Structural Diversity in Alkali Metal and Alkali Metal Magnesiate Chemistry of the Bulky 2,6-Diisopropyl-N-(trimethylsilyl)anilino Ligand.

scientific article published on 30 August 2016

Structural and magnetic insights into the trinuclear ferrocenophane and unexpected hydrido inverse crown products of alkali-metal-mediated manganation(II) of ferrocene

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Structural basis for regioisomerization in the alkali-metal-mediated zincation (AMMZn) of trifluoromethyl benzene by isolation of kinetic and thermodynamic intermediates.

scientific article published on July 2010

Structural complexity of the magnesiation of furan: an octadecanuclear product with a subporphyrin-like Mg3(2,5-fur-di-yl)3 substructure.

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Structural elaboration of the surprising ortho-zincation of benzyl methyl ether

scientific article published on 20 January 2010

Structural elucidation of homometallic anthracenolates synthesised via deprotonative metallation of anthrone

scientific article published on 4 December 2012

Structural tracking of the potassium-mediated magnesiation of anisole

scientific article published on October 2009

Structural variations in bimetallic sodium–magnesium and sodium–zinc ketimides, and a sodium–zinc alkide–alkoxide–amide: connections to ring-stacking, ring-laddering, and inverse crown concepts

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Structural variations within group 1 (Li-Cs)+ (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy)- complexes made via metallic reduction of the nitroxyl radical.

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Structurally Defined Reactions of Sodium TMP–Zincate with Nitrile Compounds: Synthesis of a Salt-Like Sodium Sodiumdizincate and Other Unexpected Ion-Pair Products

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Structurally defined potassium-mediated zincation of pyridine and 4-R-substituted pyridines (R = Et, iPr, tBu, Ph, and Me2N) by using dialkyl-TMP-zincate bases

scientific article published on July 2009

Structurally engineered deprotonation/alumination of THF and THTP with retention of their cycloanionic structures

scientific article published on December 2010

Structurally powered synergic 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine bimetallics: new reflections through lithium-mediated ortho aluminations

scientific article published on 26 April 2011

Structurally stimulated deprotonation/alumination of the TMP anion

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Structurally-defined direct C-magnesiation and C-zincation of N-heterocyclic aromatic compounds using alkali-metal-mediated metallation

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Structurally-defined potassium-mediated regioselective zincation of amino- and alkoxy-substituted pyridines

scientific article published on 16 May 2008

Synergic Monodeprotonation of Bis(benzene)chromium by Using Mixed Alkali Metal-Magnesium Amide Bases and Structural Characterization of the Heterotrimetallic Products

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Synergic Synthesis of Benzannulated Zincabicyclic Complexes, α-Zincated N Ylides, through Sodium-TMEDA-Mediated Zincation of a Haloarene

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Synergic sedation of sensitive anions: alkali-mediated zincation of cyclic ethers and ethene

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Synergic transformation of an ethylenediamine to a lithium 1,3-diaza-2-zincacyclopentene via an alkyllithium/bis(alkyl)zinc mixture.

scientific article published on September 2010

Synthesis and Crystal Structure of[{nBuMg(μ-TMP)}2] and of a Homometallic Inverse Crown in Tetranuclear[{nBuMg2[μ-N(H)Dipp]2(μ3-OnBu)}2]

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Synthesis and characterisation of a series of alkylmagnesium amide and related oxygen-contaminated "alkoxy" compounds

scientific article published on 8 March 2005

Synthesis and characterisation of new bimetallic alkali metal-magnesium mixed diisopropylamide-acetylides: structural variations in bimetallic lithium- and sodium-heteroleptic magnesiates.

scientific article published on 14 February 2008

Synthesis and crystal structure of trimeric sodium 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide (NaTMP)

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Synthesis and structure of the Li13 cage [{[OP(μ-NtBu)]2Li2}3(LiCl)6Li(Cl/OnBu)0.5(thf)7], containing a [OP(μ-NtBu)]22− dianion

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Synthesis of the mixed lithium–potassium–(bis)magnesium N-metallated/N, C-dimetallated amide [Li2K2Mg4{But(Me3Si)N}4{But[Me2(H2C)Si]N}4]: an inverse crown molecule with an atomless cavityElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: NMR s

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Synthesis of zirconocene amides and ketimides and an investigation into their ethylene polymerization activity

Synthesis, Structural Authentication, and Structurally Defined Metalation Reactions of Lithium and Sodium DA-Zincate Bases (DA = diisopropylamide) with Phenylacetylene†

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Synthetic and structural insights into the zincation of toluene: direct synergic ring metallation versus indirect nonsynergic lateral metallation

scientific article published in January 2009

Synthetically important alkali-metal utility amides: lithium, sodium, and potassium hexamethyldisilazides, diisopropylamides, and tetramethylpiperidides

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Trans-Metal-Trapping: Concealed Crossover Complexes En Route to Transmetallation?

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Transamination chemistry of sodium TMP-zincate: synthesis and crystal structure of a chiral amidozincate.

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Transforming LiTMP Lithiation of Challenging Diazines through Gallium Alkyl Trans-Metal-Trapping

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Trapping, stabilization, and characterization of an enolate anion of a 1,6-adduct of benzophenone chelated by a sodium alkylamidozincate cation

scientific article published in September 2005

Trimagnesium-bridged trinuclear ferrocenophanes cocomplexed with solvated mononuclear alkali metal amide molecules

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Tuning the basicity of synergic bimetallic reagents: switching the regioselectivity of the direct dimetalation of toluene from 2,5- to 3,5-positions

scientific article published on January 2008

Unmasking Representative Structures of TMP-Active Hauser and Turbo-Hauser Bases

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catena-Poly[sodium-μ2-(N,N,N',N'-tetra-methyl-ethane-1,2-diamine)-κ(2) N:N'-sodium-bis-[μ2-bis-(trimethyl-sil-yl)aza-nido-κ(2) N:N]]

scientific article published on 10 November 2012

cis-2,6-Dimethylpiperidide: a structural mimic for TMP (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide) or DA (diisopropylamide)?

scientific article published on 2 September 2009

“LiZn(TMP)3”, a Zincate or a Turbo-Lithium Amide Reagent? DOSY NMR Spectroscopic Evidence

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