Cover ChemistryEurope Introducing Weakly Ligated Tris(trifluoromethyl)copper(III)

The ChemistryEurope journal features on its front cover the recently published research article “Introducing Weakly Ligated Tris(trifluoromethyl)copper(III)” by Prof. Xavi Ribas of the QBISCAT group and Dr. Pedro Salvador of the TCBioSys group at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) of the University of Girona, also in collaboration with Dr. Petr Beier and Dr. Vladimir Motornov (Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences). An elusive T-shaped high-valent Cu^III derivative, Cu(CF₃)₃ which is depicted on the cover, was stabilized in the form of solvates and theoretically studied. In their Research Article, V. Motornov, X. Ribas, P. Beier, and co-workers report the synthesis of solvates Cu(CF₃)₃á2DMF and Cu(CF₃)₃áMeCN, which were fully characterized including X-ray crystallography. Ligand substitution in these solvates enables access to a variety of new high-valent Cu^III complexes. The authors would like to thank Tomáá Belloá for creating the artwork.

The corresponding paper was published recently:
Vladimir Motornov, Martin Procházka, Nora Alpuente, Pedro Salvador, Petr Slavíáek, Blanka Klepetááová, Xavi Ribas, Petr Beier
Introducing Weakly Ligated Tris(trifluoromethyl)copper(III)
ChemistryEurope, 2024, 2, e202400004
DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202400004

Girona, July 29, 2024
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