Recent Publications

2006

E.I. Tolis, K.A. Vallianatou, F.J. Andreadaki, I.D. Kostas Appl. Organomet. Chem. 2006, 20, 335-337
"A new rhodium complex with a nitrogen-containing bis(phosphine oxide) ligand as an efficient catalyst for the hydroformylation of styrene"

B.R. Steele, C. Villalonga-Barber, M. Micha-Screttas, C.G. Screttas, Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 2093-2097.
"Selective catalytic carbanionic ethylation of methylphenols. Influence of catalyst and substitution pattern"

I.D. Kostas, G.A. Heropoulos, D. Kovala-Demertzi, P.N. Yadav, J.P. Jasinski, M.A. Demertzis, F.J. Andreadaki, G. Vo-Thanh, A. Petit, A. Loupy Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 4403-4407
"Microwave-promoted Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of aryl halides with phenylboronic acid under aerobic conditions catalyzed by a new palladium complex with a thiosemicarbazone ligand"

C. Villalonga-Barber, B.R. Steele, V. Kovac, M. Micha-Screttas, C.G. Screttas, J. Organomet. Chem. 2006, 691, 2785-2792.
"New stable, isolable triarylmethyl based dyes absorbing in the near infrared"

S.K. Mastronicolis, A. Boura, A. Karaliota, P. Magiatis, N. Arvanitis, C. Litos, A. Tsakirakis, P. Paraskevas, H. Moustaka, G.A. Heropoulos, Food Microbiol. 2006, 23 , 184-194
"Effect of cold temperature on the composition of different lipid classes of the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes: Focus on neutral lipids"

I.D. Kostas, B.R. Steele, A. Terzis, S.V. Amosova, A.V. Martynov, N.A. Makhaeva Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2006, 2642-2646
"New Palladium Complexes with S- or Se-Containing Schiff-Base Ligands as Efficient Catalysts for the Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction of Aryl Bromides with Phenylboronic Acid under Aerobic Conditions"

K.A. Vallianatou, I.D. Kostas, J. Holz, A. Borner Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, in press (doi:10.1016/j.tetlet.2006.08.136)
"Me-AnilaPhos: a new chiral phosphine-phosphoramidite ligand for a highly efficient Rh-catalyzed asymmetric olefin hydrogenation"

2005

I.D. Kostas, F. Andreadaki, D. Kovala-Demertzi, C. Prentjas, M.A. Demertzis, Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 1967-1970
"Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction of aryl bromides and chlorides with phenylboronic acid under aerobic conditions catalyzed by palladium complexes with thiosemicarbazone ligands"

C. Arbez-Gindre, B.R. Steele, G.A. Heropoulos, C.G. Screttas, J.-E. Communal, W.J. Blau, I.Ledoux-Rak, J. Organomet. Chem. 2005, 690, 1620-1626
"A facile organolithium route to ferrocene-based triarylmethyl dyes with substantial near IR and NLO properties" 

G.A. Heropoulos, S. Georgakopoulos, B.R. Steele, Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 2469-2473 
"High intensity ultrasound assisted reduction of sterically demanding nitroaromatics"

C.G. Screttas, G.A. Heropoulos, M. Micha-Screttas, B.R. Steele, Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 4357-4360.
"Medium-dependent lithiated side products in the reductive lithiation of allylic phenyl thioethers. Diethyl ether versus tetrahydrofuran"

S.K. Mastronicolis, N. Arvanitis, A. Karaliota, C. Litos, G. Stavroulakis G, H. Moustaka, A. Tsakirakis, G.A. Heropoulos Food Microbiol. 2005, 22, 213-219
"Cold dependence of fatty acid profile of different lipid structures of Listeria monocytogenes"

S.V. Amosova, N.A. Makhaeva, A.V. Martynov, V.A. Potapov, B.R. Steele, I.D. Kostas, Synthesis 2005 , 1641-1648
"Terminal organochalcogenoethyl- and -propylamines and their Schiff base derivatives."

A.G. Koutsimpelis, C.G. Screttas, O. Igglessi-Markopoulou, Heterocycles, 2005, 65, 1393-1401
"Synthesis of new ultraviolet light absorbers based on 2-aryl-2H-benzotriazoles"

I.D. Kostas, K.A. Vallianatou, J. Holz, A. Borner, Appl. Organomet. Chem. 2005, 19, 1090-1095
"Rhodium complexes with a new chiral nitrogen-containing BINOL-based diphosphite or phosphonite ligand: synthesis and application to hydroformylation of styrene and/or hydrogenation of prochiral olefins"

N.V. Dubrovina, V.I. Tararov, A. Monsees, A. Spannenberg, I.D. Kostas, A. Borner, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2005, 16, 3640-3649"
New chiral 1,3-diphosphine ligands for Rh-catalyzed enantioselective hydrogenation: a search for electronic effects"

N.G. Oikonomakos, M.N. Kosmopoulou, E.D. Chrysina, D.D. Leonidas, I.D. Kostas, K.U. Wendt, T. Klabunde, E. Defossa, Protein Sci. 2005, 14, 1760-1771
"Crystallographic studies on acyl ureas, a new class of glycogen phosphorylase inhibitors, as potential antidiabetic drugs"

2004

A. Lazaridou, C.G. Biliaderis, M. Micha-Screttas, B. R. Steele, Food Hydrocolloids 2004, 18, 837-855.
"A comparative study on structure ? function relations of mixed linkage (1-3), (1-4) linear b-D-glucans"

A.V. Martynov, N.A. Makhaeva, V. Α. Potapov, S.V. Amosova, B.R. Steele, I.D. Kostas, Phosphorus Sulfur 2004, 179, 1373-1380.
"Reduction of terminal organylchalcogeno phosphonates as a way to prepare primary organylchalcogeno phosphines"

I.D. Kostas, B.R. Steele, F.J. Andreadaki, V.A. Potapov, Inorg. Chim. Acta 2004, 357, 2850-2854.
"Rhodium complexes possessing S-phosphinite ligands with or without an amino group. Application to hydroformylation of styrene"

B.R. Steele, M. Micha-Screttas, C.G. Screttas, Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 9537-9540. 
"Synthesis and properties of 1-bromo-2,3,5,6-tetrakis(3-pentyl)benzene : a highly sterically hindered aryl bromide"

I.D. Kostas, K.A. Vallianatou, P. Kyritsis, J. Zednik, J. Vohlidal, Inorg. Chim. Acta 2004, 357, 3084-3088
"Hydroformylation of alkenes catalyzed by new dinuclear aryloxide- and carboxylate-bridged rhodium complexes"

D. Kovala-Demertzi, P.N. Yadav, M.A. Dernertzis, J.P. Jasiski, F. Andreadaki, I.D. Kostas, Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 2923-2926 
"First use of a palladium complex with a thiosemicarbazone ligand as catalyst precursor for the Heck reaction"

2003

I.D. Kostas, B.R. Steele, A. Terzis, S.V. Amosova, Tetrahedron, 2003, 59, 3467-3473.
"A palladium complex with a new hemilabile amino- and sulfur-containing phosphinite ligand as an efficient catalyst for the Heck reaction of aryl bromides with styrene. The effect of the amino group."

D.P. Catsoulacos, B.R. Steele, G.A. Heropoulos, M. Micha-Screttas, C.G. Screttas, Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 4575-4578.
"An imino-phosphine dendrimeric ligand and its evaluation in the Heck reaction"

C.G. Screttas, G.A. Heropoulos, M. Micha-Screttas, B.R. Steele, D.P. Catsoulacos, Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 5633-5635
"Reductive lithiation of alkyl phenyl sulfides in diethyl ether. A ready access to a,a-dialkylbenzyllithiums"

G.C. Papavassiliou, G.A. Mousdis, G.C. Anyfantis, N. Assimomytis, B.R. Steele, Z. Naturforsch. 2003, 58B, 813-4.
"Preparation and characterization of 5,6-dimethyl-5,6-dihydro-[1,4]diselenino[2,3-d][1,3]dithiole-2-thione and similar compounds"

I.D. Kostas, Inorg. Chim. Acta 2003, 355, 424-427
"Synthesis of new nitrogen-containing phosphinite and phosphine-phosphinite ligands. Application to rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation of styrene"

2002

B.R. Steele, M. Micha-Screttas, C.G. Screttas, Appl. Organomet. Chem. 2002, 16, 501-505
"Applications of novel sterically demanding aromatics in organometallic synthesis"

M. Micha-Screttas, C.G. Screttas, B.R. Steele, G. A. Heropoulos, Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 4871-4873.
"Chemical and physical evidence for metal-metal interchange between lithium alkoxides and dibutylmagnesium"

M.T. Reetz, I.D. Kostas, S.R. Waldvogel, Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2002, 5, 252-254
"Synthesis of a gold(I) complex with a (thio)phosphine-modified beta-cyclodextrin"

P. Calaminici, K. Jug, A.M. Koester, C. Arbez-Gindre, C.G. Screttas, J. Comput. Chem. 2002, 23, 291-297
"Mechanism for large first hyperpolarizabilities of phosphonic acid stilbene derivatives"

2001

S.R. Bayly, E.R. Humphrey, H. de Chair, C.G. Paredes, Z.R. Bell, J.C. Jeffery, J.A. McCleverty, M.D. Ward, F. Totti, D. Gatteschi, S. Courric, B.R. Steele, C.G.Screttas, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. 2001, 1401-1414
"Electronic and magnetic metal-metal interactions in dinuclear oxo-Mo(V) complexes across bis-phenolate bridging ligands with different spacers between the phenolate termini: ligand-centred vs. metal-centred redox activity"

M. Micha-Screttas, G. A. Heropoulos, B.R. Steele, Mag. Res. Chem. 2001, 39, 586-592.
"Structural changes in concentrated solutions of alkali metal monosubstituted benzophenone radical anions in pure and mixed solvents"

I.D. Kostas, J. Organomet. Chem. 2001, 634, 90-98
"Synthesis of a tetramethoxy and an amphiphilic tetrahydroxy hemilabile N,P,N-ligand. Coordination behavior towards rhodium(I) and application to hydroformylation of styrene or hydrogenation of trans-cinnamaldehyde"

I.D. Kostas, J. Organomet. Chem. 2001, 626, 221-226
"Synthesis of new rhodium complexes with a hemilabile nitrogen-containing bis(phosphinite) or bis(phosphine) ligand. Application to hydroformylation of styrene"