W.R. Roper

Research interests

Publications

• Stepwise Reactions of Acetylenes with Iridium Thiocarbonyl Complexes To Produce Isolable Iridacyclobutadienes and Conversion of These to either Cyclopentadienyliridium or Tethered Iridabenzene Complexes

  Organometallics · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1021/om061066r

• An Osmabenzofuran from Reaction between Os(PhC⋮CPh)(CS)(PPh3)2 and Methyl Propiolate and the C-Protonation of this Compound to Form a Tethered Osmabenzene

  Organometallics · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1021/om0510371

• Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions of a Metallabenzene: Nitration and Halogenation of the Osmabenzene [Os{C(SMe)CHCHCHCH}I(CO)(PPh3)2]

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(20000218)39:4<750::aid-anie750>3.0.co;2-q

• A Base-Stabilized Terminal Borylene Complex of Osmium Derived from Reaction between a Dichloroboryl Complex and 8-Aminoquinoline

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(20000303)39:5<948::aid-anie948>3.0.co;2-2

• Electrophilic Substitution Reactions at the Phenyl Ring of the Chelated 2-(2‘-Pyridyl)phenyl Ligand Bound to Ruthenium(II) or Osmium(II)

  Organometallics · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1021/om990232a

• Transition Metal−Boryl Compounds: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Structure

  Chemical Reviews · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1021/cr9500085

• Insertion of Ethyne into the Ru−Si Bonds of Coordinatively Unsaturated Ruthenium Silyl Complexes. X-ray Crystal Structures of Ru(CHCHSiMe2OEt)Cl(CO)2(PPh3)2 and [Ru(CHCHSiMe2OH)(CN-p-tolyl)(CO)(PPh3)2]ClO4

  Organometallics · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1021/om9509711

• Activation of 2-propyn-1-ol derivatives by (arene)ruthenium(II) complexes: new route to (alkenylcarbene)- and (polyenylcarbene)-metal complexes

  Organometallics · 1992 · https://doi.org/10.1021/om00038a046

• Transition-metal dihalocarbene complexes

  Chemical Reviews · 1988 · https://doi.org/10.1021/cr00089a014

• Platinum group metals in the formation of metal–carbon multiple bonds

  Journal of Organometallic Chemistry · 1986 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-328x(86)84061-x

• Carbene and Carbyne Complexes of Ruthenium, Osmium, and Iridium

  Advances in organometallic chemistry · 1986 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0065-3055(08)60574-2

• A mononuclear, low-valent, electron-rich osmium methylene complex

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1983 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00356a050

• Metallacyclohexatrienes or ‘metallabenzenes.’ Synthesis of osmabenzene derivatives and X-ray crystal structure of [Os(CSCHCHCHCH)(CO)(PPh 3 ) 2 ]

  Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · 1982 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c39820000811

• Difluorocarbene complexes of ruthenium derived from trifluoromethyl compounds. RuCl2(CF2)(CO)(PPh3)2, RuCl2(CFNMe2)(CO)(PPh3)2, RuCl2(CFOMe)(CO)(PPh3)2 and the structure of Ru(CF3)(HgCF3)(CO)2(PPh3)2

  Journal of Organometallic Chemistry · 1982 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-328x(00)85710-1

• An osmium-carbyne complex

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1980 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00541a038

• Organometallic models for possible Fischer-Tropsch intermediates. Synthesis, structure, and reactions of a formaldehyde complex of osmium

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1979 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00496a050

• Stepwise reduction of the thiocarbonyl ligand: hydride transfer to CS: thioformyl, thioformaldehyde, methylthiolato, secondary carbene, formyl and iminoformyl complexes of osmium

  Journal of Organometallic Chemistry · 1978 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-328x(00)80882-7

• Five and six CO-ordinate σ-aryl derivatives of Ru(II) and Os(II) and the equilibrium RuRX(CO)2 (PPh3)2⇄ Ru[C(O)R]X(CO) (PPh3)2

  Journal of Organometallic Chemistry · 1977 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-328x(00)91825-4

• Ru(CO)2(PPh3)3 and Os(CO)2(PPh3)3. An ethylene complex of ruthenium and a dioxygen complex of osmium

  Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · 1972 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c3972000060b

• Oxidative-Addition Reactions of d8 Complexes

  Advances in organometallic chemistry · 1969 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0065-3055(08)60292-0

• Preparation and Oxidative Addition Reactions of a Monomeric Ruthenium(0) Complex

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1965 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01095a058

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