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Brian W. Skelton

Researcher Next ID · RN-033131

Researcher · Chemistry

The University of Western Australia

Perth, Australia

Accepting doctoral researchersFunding unknown
Works count
6,551
Citation count
40,039
H-index
77
i10-index
1,110

Research interests

Chemistry
Materials Science
Medicine
Crystallization and Solubility Studies
X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Crystallography and molecular interactions
Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
Metal complexes synthesis and properties

Publications

  • Strigolactone Hormones and Their Stereoisomers Signal through Two Related Receptor Proteins to Induce Different Physiological Responses in Arabidopsis

    PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.114.240036

  • Harzianic Acid, an Antifungal and Plant Growth Promoting Metabolite from Trichoderma harzianum

    Journal of Natural Products · 2009 · 10.1021/np900548p

  • Cationic, linear Au(i) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: synthesis, structure and anti-mitochondrial activity

    Dalton Transactions · 2006 · 10.1039/b602560a

  • Luminescence Studies of the Intracellular Distribution of a Dinuclear Gold(I) N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Complex

    Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2006 · 10.1002/anie.200601526

  • Synthesis and structural characterisation of linear Au(I) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: New analogues of the Au(I) phosphine drug Auranofin

    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry · 2005 · 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2005.07.013

  • Dinuclear gold( i ) complexes of bridging bidentate carbene ligands: synthesis, structure and spectroscopic characterisation

    Dalton Transactions · 2004 · 10.1039/b316804b

  • Synthetic, structural and spectroscopic studies of (pseudo)halo(1,3-di-tert-butylimidazol-2-ylidine)gold complexes

    Dalton Transactions · 2004 · 10.1039/b412540a

  • Syntheses, Structures, and Spectro-electrochemistry of {Cp*(PP)Ru}C⋮CC⋮C{Ru(PP)Cp*} (PP = dppm, dppe) and Their Mono- and Dications

    Organometallics · 2003 · 10.1021/om030015g

  • A pyridine bridged dicarbene ligand and its silver(I) and palladium(II) complexes: synthesis, structures, and catalytic applications

    Inorganica Chimica Acta · 2002 · 10.1016/s0020-1693(01)00677-6

  • Nickel(II) Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes as Catalysts for Olefin Dimerization in an Imidazolium Chloroaluminate Ionic Liquid

    Organometallics · 2001 · 10.1021/om010717a

  • Palladium(II) complexes containing mono-, bi- and tridentate carbene ligands. Synthesis, characterisation and application as catalysts in CC coupling reactions

    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-328x(00)00720-8

  • Palladium carbene complexes derived from imidazolium-linked ortho-cyclophanes

    Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions · 2001 · 10.1039/b007293l

  • Oxidative Addition of the Imidazolium Cation to Zerovalent Ni, Pd, and Pt: A Combined Density Functional and Experimental Study

    Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2001 · 10.1021/ja010628p

  • Zerovalent Palladium and Nickel Complexes of Heterocyclic Carbenes: Oxidative Addition of Organic Halides, Carbon−Carbon Coupling Processes, and the Heck Reaction

    Organometallics · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1021/om9809771

  • Synthesis and Structural Analysis of a Helical Coordination Polymer Formed by the Self-Assembly of a 2,2′-Bipyridine-Basedexo-Ditopic Macrocyclic Ligand and Silver Cations

    Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 1998 · 10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(19980420)37:7<920::aid-anie920>3.0.co;2-o

  • Synthesis and reaction chemistry of mixed ligand methylpalladium–carbene complexes

    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry · 1998 · 10.1016/s0022-328x(98)00455-0

  • Designed Synthesis of Mononuclear Tris(heteroleptic) Ruthenium Complexes Containing Bidentate Polypyridyl Ligands

    Inorganic Chemistry · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ic00128a028

  • Cylindricines A and B, novel alkaloids from the ascidian clavelina cylindrica

    Tetrahedron · 1993 · 10.1016/s0040-4020(01)96270-2

  • Template syntheses involving carbon acids. Synthesis and characterization of (3,10-dimethyl-3,10-dinitro-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane)copper(II) and (1,9-diamino-5-methyl-5-nitro-3,7-diazanonane)copper(II) cations and nitro group reduction products

    Inorganic Chemistry · 1986 · 10.1021/ic00243a040

  • The oxidative addition of lodomethane to [PdMe 2 (bpy)] and the X-ray structure of the organopalladium( IV ) product fac-[PdMe 3 (bpy)l](bpy = 2,2′-bipyridyl)

    Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · 1986 · 10.1039/c39860001722

  • Highly Hindered Amido-Lithium and Amido-Magnesium Complexes. Crystal-Structures of [Li(Mu-N(SiMe3)2)(Tetrahydrofuran)]2 and [MgBus(Mu-N(SiMe3)2)]2

    Australian Journal of Chemistry · 1986 · 10.1071/ch9861337

  • Structural studies on the caesium alums, CsM III [SO 4 ] 2 ·12H 2 O

    Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions · 1981 · 10.1039/dt9810002105

  • Isolation, crystal structure and synthesis of arsenobetaine, a constituent of the western rock lobster, the dusky shark, and some samples of human urine

    Australian Journal of Chemistry · 1981 · 10.1071/ch9810787

  • Isolation, crystal structure and synthesis of arsenobetaine, the arsenical constituent of the western rock lobster panulirus longipes cygnus George

    Tetrahedron Letters · 1977 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0040-4039(01)93098-9

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