Ralph Ruffolo

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used laser flash photolysis techniques to identify a mixture of reactive intermediates which have been detected and identified using laser flash photosynthesis techniques and trapped as the methanol adducts in steady state irradiation experiments.

TL;DR: In this article, variable-temperature NMR data on these cluster cations, and on their bis(diphenylphosphino)methane derivatives, reveal that the barrier to migration of the cationic center between cobalt cluster vertices increases in the order fluorenyl < indenyl < cyclopentadienyl and suggest that the cations with more antiaromatic character have the greatest need for charge delocalization onto the metal center.

TL;DR: In this article, the triplet state of the disilane was assigned to the following triples: 1,1-dimethyl-3-phenyl-3-(trimethylsilyl)-1-silaallene (τ ∼ 25 μs), dimethyl-silylene(τ ∼ 100 ns), and 1, 1-dimethyltransformer-1-silacyclopropene(τ > 100 ms) on the basis of their UV spectra and reactivity toward various reagents.

TL;DR: A series of compounds containing alkynylsilane and arylsilane groups, including oligomers and polymers, were used as transition-metal ligands as discussed by the authors, and the molecular weights of these complexes ranged up to 155'000 for a silicone polymer derived complex.