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Recent Advances in the Applications of Metal-Ligand Cooperation via
Dearomatization and Aromatization of Pincer Complexes . . . . . . . . . . .
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Amit Kumar and David Milstein
Metal-Ligand Cooperation at Phosphine-Based Acceptor Pincer
Ligands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Martine R. Tiddens and Marc-Etienne Moret
Metal-Ligand Cooperativity of Phosphorus-Containing Pincer
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Seji Kim, Yeong-Eun Kim, and Yunho Lee
Cooperative Reactivity by Pincer-Type Complexes Possessing
Secondary Coordination Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Ajeet Singh, Evamarie Hey-Hawkins, and Dmitri Gelman
Redox-Active Pincer Ligands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt
A Pincer Motif Etched into a meta-Benziporphyrin Frame . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Karolina Hurej and Lechosław Latos-Grażyński
The Role of Metal-Ligand Cooperation in Manganese(I)-Catalyzed
Hydrogenation/Dehydrogenation Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Stefan Weber and Karl Kirchner
Hydrogenation Reactions Catalyzed by PNP-Type Complexes
Featuring a HN(CH 2 CH 2 PR 2 ) 2 Ligand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Dewmi A. Ekanayake and Hairong Guan
Catalytic Conversion of Nitriles by Metal Pincer Complexes . . . . . . . . . 321
Beibei Guo, Edwin Otten, and Johannes G. de Vries
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