Robert McDonald

Research interests

Publications

• Challenging nickel-catalysed amine arylations enabled by tailored ancillary ligand design

  Nature Communications · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11073

• Coaxing Solid‐State Phosphorescence from Tellurophenes

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201307373

• High Stokes Shift Anilido‐Pyridine Boron Difluoride Dyes

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201105228

• Enantioselective preparation and chemoselective cross-coupling of 1,1-diboron compounds

  Nature Chemistry · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1150

• Intercepting low oxidation state main group hydrides with a nucleophilic N-heterocyclic olefin

  Chemical Communications · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cc11737h

• Divergent Reactivity of Perfluoropentaphenylborole with Alkynes

  Organometallics · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1021/om100334r

• Donor/acceptor stabilization of Ge(ii) dihydride

  Chemical Communications · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1039/b915950a

• Rhodium and Iridium Amido Complexes Supported by Silyl Pincer Ligation: Ammonia N−H Bond Activation by a [PSiP]Ir Complex

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja906646v

• Polyynes as a Model for Carbyne: Synthesis, Physical Properties, and Nonlinear Optical Response

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja044526l

• Rapidly Initiating Ruthenium Olefin‐Metathesis Catalysts

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200461374

• Cationic Scandium Methyl Complexes Supported by a β-Diketiminato (“Nacnac”) Ligand Framework

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja017128g

• Stable Bromonium and Iodonium Ions of the Hindered Olefins Adamantylideneadamantane and Bicyclo[3.3.1]nonylidenebicyclo[3.3.1]nonane. X-Ray Structure, Transfer of Positive Halogens to Acceptor Olefins, and ab Initio Studies

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00085a027

• The configuration and diffusion of isolated oxygen in silicon and germanium

  Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids · 1964 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3697(64)90100-3

• New Oxygen Infrared Bands in Annealed Irradiated Silicon

  Physical Review · 1964 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.135.a1381

• Defects in Irradiated Silicon. II. Infrared Absorption of the Si- A Center

  Physical Review · 1961 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.121.1015

• Surface Functionality of Amorphous Silica by Infrared Spectroscopy

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry · 1958 · https://doi.org/10.1021/j150568a004

• Study of the Interaction between Hydroxyl Groups of Aerosil Silica and Adsorbed Non-polar Molecules by Infrared Spectrometry1

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1957 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01561a018

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