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Treatment of an open-cage fullerene, designated as MMK-9, with (Ph3P)4Pt in toluene solution at room temperature allows a (PPh3)2Pt unit to be incorporated into the rim of the cage so that it becomes an integral part of the carbon cage skeleton. The structure of the adduct has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction and reveals that the platinum atom has planar PtC2P2 coordination, rather than the usual η2-bonding to an intact C–C double bond of the fullerene.

Fully spin delocalized mixed valence copper–sulfur clusters, 1 and 2, supported by μ4-sulfido and NSthiol donor ligands are synthesized and characterized. Wheel shaped 1 consists of Cu2S2 units. The unprecedented nanoball 2 can be described as S@Cu4(tetrahedron)@O6(octahedron)@Cu12S12(cage) consisting of both Cu2S2 and (μ4-S)Cu4 units. The Cu2S2 and (μ4-S)Cu4 units resemble biological CuA and CuZ sites respectively.

The reaction of the tetrakis[di(ethoxycarbonyl)methano]-C60 (1) with Ru3(CO)12 afforded the first bis-parallel C60-metal cluster complex: parallel-[Ru3(CO)9]2{μ3-η(2),η(2),η(2)-C60[C(COOC2H5)2]4}. The two triruthenium groups are found in either a parallel or a tilted orientation relative to each other, as determined by NMR. Only the parallel form was characterized by X-ray crystallography.

A new hexakis-fullerene adduct with two 4,5-diazafluorene groups strategically located at trans-1 positions to allow linear polymerization was selectively synthesized in very high yield. By reaction with Ag(triflate), a one dimensional metal-organic coordination polymer was obtained.

Cocrystallization of C70 with bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene (ET) produces two different solvates, C70·ET·C6H6 and 2C70·2ET·CS2, which show distinctly different overlap between the fullerene and ET molecules.

A (μ-SR)2-nickel(II) dimer derived from a ligand with carboxamido nitrogen and thiolato sulfur donors reacts with O2 to afford an oxidized product in which phenyl groups of the ligand frames are oxidized to nickel-bound phenolates.

The X-ray crystal structure of (Isomer 2 of Er2@C82). NiII(OEP).2(benzene) shows that the fullerene cage in Isomer 2 of Er2@C82 is the C3v isomer (82:8) and that the erbium ions are distributed over 23 interior sites with occupancies ranging from 0.25 to 0.03.

A sample of C60 containing ca. 9% Kr@C60 has been used to form crystalline (0.09Kr@C60/0.91C60).(NiII(OEP)).2C6H6 whose X-ray crystal structure reveals that the Kr atom is centered within the carbon cage and does not produce a detectable change in the size of the fullerene.

C60–tetrazine Diels–Alder adducts bearing electron deficient dihydropyridazine groups undergo chemoselective amination and hydration reactions upon addition of primary aliphatic amines and water, respectively, to form new adducts with 4,5-dihydropyrazole groups nested atop the [60]fullerene skeleton.

4-Hydroxy-3-(2′-pyridyl)coumarins (4) (R = 6-Cl, H, 6-NO2, 8-NO2) were prepared in moderate to good yields by the intramolecular nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction of β-ketoesters (I) in refluxing xylenes; evidence for the reversible formation of benzo[c]quinolizinium III from I (X = 4-Cl), with eventual formation of 4 (R = 6-Cl), is also presented.

At 168 K crystals of 2C60·3CS2 undergo a reversible phase transition (from orthorhombic to monoclinic), which is accompanied by orientational ordering of both C60 molecules in the asymmetric unit.

Cocrystallization of Co2(CO)8 with C60 traps the cobalt carbonyl molecule as the D(3d) isomer that otherwise is not available for crystallographic analysis.

The 1H NMR spectra of the 5,10,15,20-tetraalkylporphyrins 2–4 reveal a large downfield shift of the signal for the NH protons and a reduction in the activation energy for NH tautomerism as the alkyl substituents become larger; these unusual changes can be rationalized in terms of greatly enhanced intramolecular hydrogen bonding of the NH protons as the bulkier substituents distort the macrocycle from planarity and contract the porphyrin core.

Tridentate cross-linked histidine-phenol Cu(ii) ether and ester complexes, chemical analogs of the active site of several heme-copper oxidases, have been synthesized and crystallized.

Exploiting 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and carbanilide cyclization transformations, novel isoxazolylmethylimidazolidinedione heterocycles have been prepared using both solution- and solid-phase methods.

The helical diketone, C36H14O2, is formed during the flash vacuum pyrolysis of decacyclene in the presence of oxygen and has been characterized by X-ray crystallography.

Trimeric green [(i-PrNC)12Rh(I)3]Cl3.4.5H2O, monomeric [(C6H11NC)4Rh(I)](BPh4) and [(i-PrNC)4Rh(I)](BPh4) (both yellow), and red, dimeric [(C6H11NC)8Rh(I)2]Cl2.0.5C6H6.2H2O have been crystallized.

Trinuclear Ni-Cu-Ni and Ni-Ni-Ni complexes derived from an Ni(ii)-dicarboxamido-dithiolato metallosynthon exhibit redox behavior and CO binding properties similar to those of the A-cluster in acetyl coenzyme A synthase/CO dehydrogenase (ACS/CODH).

A subphthalocyanine (SubPc) dimer linked by racemic 1,1'-binaphth-2,2'-dioxy (BINOL), 1, has been synthesized and characterized by 1- and 2-D 1H NMR, high resolution mass spectrometry (FAB), X-ray crystallography and electronic absorption spectroscopy. Additionally, the dimer derived from optically-active (R)-(+)-BINOL, 2, has been made and studied using CD and MCD spectroscopies.

Diazotization of 7-amino-5,8-dimethyl-6-thiophenylisoquinoline with sodium nitrite in acetic acid gives a mixture of 6-thiaellipticine and 5-methyl-4-thiophenyl-3H-pyrazolo[3,4-h]isoquinoline, a new heterocyclic ring system whose crystal structure is presented.

Two very different molecular shapes are formed using the ligand 1,3,5-tris(diphenylphosphino)benzene (L); polymeric chains form through Au⋯Au contacts in the crystals of [(ClAu)3L], while the metallocyclophane [(PtCl2)3L2] self assembles from five components when L and [PtCl2(cod)] are combined in a 2:3 molecular ratio.