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Fields of interest:

• Synthesis and characterization of inorganic
• Organometallic and organophosphorus compounds
• Antitumor properties of metal compounds

Recent publications:

L. Balazs, H.J. Breunig, E. Lork, A. Soran andC. Silvestru:
Isomers of a Dibismuthane, R2Bi-BiR2 [R = 2,6-(Me2NCH2)2C6H3], and Unusual Reactions with Oxygen: Formation of `R2Bi`2(O2) and R'R' 'Bi [R' = 2-(Me2NCH2)-6-{Me2N(O)CH2}C6H3; R' ' = 2-(Me2NCH2)-6-{O(O)C}C6H3],
Inorg. Chem., Vol. 45(5),, (2006), pp. 2341-2346.

R.A. Varga, C. Silvestru and C. Deleanu:
Synthesis, solution behaviour and X-ray structures of [2-(Me2NCH2)C6H4]SnCl3 and [2-(Me2NCH2)C6H4]SnCl3•DMSO,
Applied Organometallic Chemistry, (2005), Vol. 19(1), pp. 153-160.

M. Kulcsar, A. Silvestru, C. Silvestru, J.E. Drake, C.L.B. Macdonald, M.B. Hursthouse and  M.E. Ligh:
Organoselenium(II) and selenium(IV) compounds containing 2-(Me2NCH2)C6H4 moieties: solution behavior and solid state structure,
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, (2005), Vol. 690(13), pp. 3217-3228.

G.L. Abbati, M.C. Aragoni, M. Arca, M. Bonaria Carream, F.A. Devillanova, A. Garau, F. Isaia, V. Lippolis, M. Marcelli, C. Silvestru  and G. Verani:
Gold(0) and gold(III) reactivity towards the tetraphenyldithioimidodiphosphinic acid, [Ph`2`P(S)NHP(S)Ph`2`],
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., (2005), pp. 589-596.

M. Ghesner, A. Silvestru, C. Silvestru, J.E. Drake, M.B. Hursthouse and M.E. Light:
Structural diversity of cadmium(II) complexes of tetraorganodichalcogenoimidodiphosphinato ligands: Monomeric Cd (SPMe2)(2)N (2), dinuclear Cd{(OPMe2)(SPPh2)N}(2) (2) and Cd-2{(OPPh2)(2)N}(4)(H2O), and trinuclear K Cd-2{(OPPh2)(2)N}(5),
Inorganica Chimica Acta, (2005), Vol. 358(13), pp. 3724-3734.

V.R. Bojan, E.J. Fernández, A. Laguna, J.M. López-de-Luzuriaga, M. Monge, M.E. Olmos and C. Silvestru:
Phosphorescent Excited State of [Au2{(Ph2Sb)2O}3]2+: Jahn-Teller Distortion at Only One Gold(I) Center,
J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 127(33), (2005), pp. 11564 -11565.

L.M. Opris, A. Silvestru, C. Silvestru, H.J. Breunig and E. Lork:
Syntheses and chemistry of hypervalent cyclo-R4Sb4, cyclo-(RSbE)n[R = 2-(Me2NCH2)C6H4, E = O, S] and precursors,
Dalton Trans., 2004, pp. 3575-3585.

V. Montiel-Palma, E. Huitrón-Rattinger, S. Cortés-Llamas, M.-Á. Munoz-Hernández, V. García-Montalvo, E. López-Honorato and C. Silvestru:
Towards Cationic Gallium Derivatives: Metallacycles from the Reactions of Organogallium Compounds with Tetraorganodichalcogenoimidodiphosphinates and a New N-(Diphenylthiophosphinyl)thioureato Ligand ,
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., Vol. 2004(18), pp. 3743-3750.

H. Breunig, L. Balázs, N. Philipp, A. Soran and C. Silvestru:
Organobismuth homocycles (RBi)n and heterocycles (RBiS)2,
Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements, (2004), Vol. 179(4-5), pp. 853-857.

L. Soran, V. Coman, A. Soran and C. Silvestru:
HPLC monitored synthesis of R2 NCH2 substituted benzene derivatives used as (C, N)-ligands for organometallic compounds,
Cent. Eur. J. Chem., Vol. 2(4), (2004), pp. 563-572.