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Research describes the synthesis of the zinc containing binucleating ligands that are employed in the stabilization of dinuclear metal complexes. Data show that the zinc binucleating ligands such as those containing one nitrous oxide and one oxygen as bridging atoms are suitable to create polynuclear compounds.

Research shows that the metal-metal bonding in the transition metal chalcogenides is facilitated by the crystallization of these compounds in the Fe(sub)2P structure type called Zr(sub)6CoAl(sub)2. Results demonstrate that the chalcogenides containing metal substituents exhibit structural and electronic flexibility and the metal-metal bonding is one dimensional in character.

The results of a systematic study regarding the morphological, structural, compositional and spectral changes involved in the reaction between silver nanostructures and an aqueous HAuCl4 solution on the nanoscale are presented. Through processes such as alloying and Ostwald ripening, the diffusion of Ag and Au atoms at low temperatures, prevents the nanostructures from smoothening their surfaces.

A study is conducted to demonstrate that a fluorous phase can screen two otherwise miscible heavier and lighter organic phases in the bromination of alkenes and the dealkylation of aromatic ethers by boron tribromide. The conclusion states that the fluorous phase acts as a liquid membrane regulating the exchange between the two organic phases by passive diffusion.

The mechanism for the activation of the sigma bonds, the O-H of water, C-H of CH4, and the H-H of hydrogen, and the pi bonds, the triple bond of C of C2H2, C=C of C2H4 and the C=O of HCHO, at the Pd=X (x=Sn, Si, C) bonds of the model complexes (H2PC2H4PH2) Pd=XH2 has been detailed. The activation of the)-H bond with the lone pair electron is heterolytic at the Pd=X (X=Sn, Si) bonds, while it is homolytic at the Pd=C bond.