Michael Olsen

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Looking for inorganic/organometallic sulfane ligand reactions?

Can anyone point me towards any papers where sulfane or sulfur based ligands were used to coordinate a metal? Everything I find has sulfur with phosphorus/nitrogen, and if I just search "sulfane"...

10 March 2025 9,421 0 View

How to synthesize Chloroauric acid?

Just what the question says. I know conceptually that you dissolve pure gold metal in HCl but I'm trying to find a more rigorous procedure so that I can know what stoichiometry to use and how to...

08 May 2024 2,561 0 View

How to dry MgBr2 and ZnCl2?

I've read in the purifcation manual that you have to react these with HBr or thionyl chloride respectively to get them super dry. I also read that you can heat MgBr2 under vacuum to 150C for...

14 December 2023 2,775 1 View

Mes sulfane bonding with diboroanthracene?

I have been trying to attach the pictured mesityl-sulfane ligand to 9,10-dibromo, 9,10 - diboroanthracene (DBA). I have tried the three rxn approaches listed (lithiation with tbuLi, grignard, TMS...

23 May 2023 3,255 0 View

How to lithiate a br-aniline derivative for reaction with 9,10-DBA?

I am trying to react a 2-br-aniline derivative ligand with 9,10-dihydro-9,10-diboraanthracene. My lab has done something similar before in this paper (Scheme 1): A Molecular Boroauride: A...

01 March 2022 3,562 2 View

How to functionalize an azine ring with an aldehyde?

I am trying to functionalize an azine ring with an aldehyde, any ideas on how to do this? Picture of what I'm working with attached below.

28 January 2022 8,532 2 View