A photo-activate-able piano stool compound containing this metal was characterized by both Graham et al and Bergman et al and was used to catalyze C-H bond activation.
Thrusters commonly use this metal mixed with aluminum oxide to decompose hydrazine. Complexes of this metal are commonly used in phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes. A photo-activate-able piano stool compound containing this metal was characterized by both Graham et al and Bergman et al and was used to catalyze C-H bond activation. One catalyst containing this metal has it coordinated to tris-cyclohexylphosphine, 1,5-cyclo-octa-diene, and pyridine, and is bonded to a PF-6 counter-anion; that complex is more effective at heterogeneously catalyzing alkene hydrogenation than the (*) rhodium-containing Wilkinson's catalyst. One complex containing this element is a square-planar yellow powder with two tri-phenyl-phosphine groups that can reversibly bind O2. This element is at the center of a catalyst in a reaction that has supplanted the Monsanto process; that catalyst triggers the carbonylation of methanol and catalyzes the Cativa process. For 10 points, name this element central to Crabtree's catalyst and Vaska's complex, which is also present in abundance at the K-T boundary.
Thrusters commonly use this metal mixed with aluminum oxide to decompose hydrazine.
Iridium [or Ir]