Synthesis and study of new nitrogen-containing ligands

Thirty new nitrogen-containing ligands have been synthesised and the coordination chemistry of the majority of these has been investigated. The coordination chemistry of previously reported ligands related to these has also been investigated. The ligands contain a central benzene ring to which nitrogen-containing heterocycles have been appended via one or two linking atoms. In this manner, between two and six such groups have been attached to a benzene ring to give ligands which display a great variety of modes of coordination to transition metals. These complexes have been characterised by combinations of N.M.R. spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, elemental analysis and X-ray crystallography - the X-ray crystal structures of thirty one complexes have been determined. Among these thirty one structures are chelated and macrocyclic complexes containing monochiral ligands, a supramolecular ten-component cage containing a guest molecule, a new N₃(arene) mode of coordination, as well as a number of complexes in which arene-arene and metal-arene interactions are observed. Cyclometallated complexes of some of these ligands have also been prepared, the dynamic N.M.R. processes of which have been investigated by variable temperature ¹H N.M.R. methods

The end of global constitutionalism and rise of antidemocratic politics

Drawing upon the idea of “constitutional antagonism” this article offers a critique of the liberal cosmopolitan framing global constitutionalism and its response to the rise of antidemocratic and “populist” authoritarian politics. Liberal cosmopolitan approaches to global constitutionalism generally pay inadequate attention to the ways in which neoliberal ideology and rationality have come to dominate the fragmented networks and structures of global constitutionalism and the connected emergence of an anti-cosmopolitan and authoritarian discourse of “nationalist neoliberalism”. Against the limits of liberal cosmopolitanism, and against the twin threats of neoliberal transnational governance and neoliberal nationalist, interstate conflict, it is argued that if an idea of transnational or global constitutionalism is to be held onto and retain any value then it must be based upon socially transformative ideas of egalitarian and ecological social justice and enacted through legal and political strategies and struggles that attempt to actively displace neoliberal ideology and rationality

Grenzen des Asylrechts

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Kann Asylbewerbern eine politische Betätigung im Bundesgebiet untersagt werden?

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