Manipulating Hydrocarbon Chain-Melting Transitions in Dialkylammonium Halide Barocaloric Materials through Desymmetrization Layered materials containing hydrocarbon bilayers capable of transitioning between an ordered and partially disordered state can exhibit large temperature and entropy changes─termed barocaloric effect...

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Manipulating Terminal Iron-Hydroxide Nucleophilicity through Redox We report changes in the reactivity profile of a high-spin, terminal ferrous hydroxo complex (EmL)Fe(OH) as a function of oxidation states (i.e., FeII/FeIII). The terminal, high-spin Fe–OH adducts wer...

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Hydride Transfer Reactivity of an Open-Shell [Fe3H]− Cluster We report herein the synthesis and reactivity of the high-spin iron-hydride cluster [K(C222)][(tbsL)Fe3(μ3–H)]. Direct hydride transfer reaction attempts led to cluster reduction to afford the anionic...

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