Publications by authors named "A A Paparo"

Self-reports are conventionally used to measure political preferences, yet individuals may be unable or unwilling to report their political attitudes. Here, in 69 participants we compared implicit and explicit methods of political attitude assessment and focused our investigation on populist attitudes. Ahead of the 2019 European Parliament election, we recorded electroencephalography (EEG) from future voters while they completed a survey that measured levels of agreement on different political issues.

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A frustrated Lewis pair of dititanoxycarbene [(Ti(N[Bu]Ar))(μ-CO)] (Ar = 3,5-MeCH) and B(CF) cleaved dihydrogen under ambient conditions to give the zwitterionic formate [(Ti(N[Bu]Ar))(μ-OCHO-ηO:ηO')(B(CF))] and the hydrido borate [Ti(N[Bu]Ar)][HB(CF)].

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Reaction of several N-heterocyclic carbenes, a carbodiphosphorane, and bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane (DPPE) with [BeX2(OEt2)2] (X = Br or I) have yielded a variety of beryllium dihalide adduct complexes, all of which were crystallographically characterised. Attempts to reduce the compounds to low oxidation state beryllium complexes using a variety of reducing agents have been carried out, but were of limited success. However, reaction of [(IPr)BeBr2] (IPr = :C{(DipNCH)2}; Dip = 2,6-diisopropylphenyl) with the aluminium(i) heterocycle, [:Al(DipNacnac)] (DipNacnac = [HC(MeCNDip)2]-) afforded the adduct complex, [{(IPr)(Br)Be(μ-H)}2], while reduction of [(IPr)BeBr2] with potassium naphthalenide gave the beryllium naphthalenediyl complex, [(IPr)Be(C10H8)].

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Reactions of two magnesium(I) compounds, [{( Nacnac)Mg} ] ( Nacnac=[HC(MeCNAr) ] ; Ar=mesityl (Mes) or o-xylyl (Xyl)), with CO in the presence of [Mo(CO) ] lead to the reductive hexamerization of CO, and formation of magnesium benzenehexolate complexes, [{( Nacnac)Mg} (C O )]. [Mo(CO) ] is not consumed in these reactions, but is apparently required to initiate (or catalyze) the CO hexamerizations. A range of studies were used to probe the mechanism of formation of the benzenehexolate complexes.

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