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List of works by Michael K. Whittlesey

A Comparison of the Stability and Reactivity of Diamido- and Diaminocarbene Copper Alkoxide and Hydride Complexes.

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

Abnormal coordination of Arduengo's carbene upon reaction with M(3)(CO)(12) (M = Ru, Os)

scientific article published on 19 June 2008

Abnormally bound N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of ruthenium: C-H activation of both c4 and c5 positions in the same ligand

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Activation of H2 over the Ru-Zn Bond in the Transition Metal-Lewis Acid Heterobimetallic Species [Ru(IPr)2(CO)ZnEt](.).

scientific article published on 4 August 2016

Activation of an alkyl C-H bond geminal to an agostic interaction: an unusual mode of base-induced C-H activation

scientific article published in April 2009

Borrowing hydrogen: iridium-catalysed reactions for the formation of C-C bonds from alcohols

scientific article published on 25 November 2005

Breaking bonds over many timescales: in celebration of Robin Perutz's 70th birthday

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

C-C and C-H bond activation reactions in N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of ruthenium

scientific article published in May 2002

C-F Bond Activation of P(CF) by Ruthenium Dihydride Complexes: Isolation and Reactivity of the "Missing" Ru(PPh)H(halide) Complex, Ru(PPh)HF

scientific article published on 10 October 2018

C-H activation reactions of ruthenium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: application in a catalytic tandem reaction involving C-C bond formation from alcohols

scientific article published on 27 January 2007

Catalytic hydrodefluorination of aromatic fluorocarbons by ruthenium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes

scientific article published in February 2009

Catalytic hydrodefluorination of pentafluorobenzene by [Ru(NHC)(PPh3)2(CO)H2]: a nucleophilic attack by a metal-bound hydride ligand explains an unusual ortho-regioselectivity

scientific article published on 17 February 2011

Comparison of the photochemistry of organometallic N-heterocyclic carbene and phosphine complexes of manganese.

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Computation provides chemical insight into the diverse hydride NMR chemical shifts of [Ru(NHC)4(L)H]0/+ species (NHC = N-heterocyclic carbene; L = vacant, H2, N2, CO, MeCN, O2, P4, SO2, H-, F- and Cl-) and their [Ru(R2PCH2CH2PR2)2(L)H]+ congeners.

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Copper diamidocarbene complexes: characterization of monomeric to tetrameric species.

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

Experimental and Computational Studies of the Copper Borate Complexes [(NHC)Cu(HBEt3 )] and [(NHC)Cu(HB(C6 F5 )3 )].

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Experimental and computational investigation of C-N bond activation in ruthenium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes.

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Formation and reactivity of the cyclometallated N-heterocyclic carbene complexes [Ru(NHC)'(dppe)(CO)H]

scientific article published on 04 July 2011

Formation of [Ru(NHC)4(eta(2)-O2)H]+: an unusual, high frequency hydride chemical shift and facile, reversible coordination of O2.

scientific article published in July 2009

Heterobimetallic ruthenium-zinc complexes with bulky N-heterocyclic carbenes: syntheses, structures and reactivity

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Impact of the Novel Z-Acceptor Ligand Bis{(ortho-diphenylphosphino)phenyl}zinc (ZnPhos) on the Formation and Reactivity of Low-Coordinate Ru(0) Centers

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Influence of Ring-Expanded N-Heterocyclic Carbenes on the Structures of Half-Sandwich Ni(I) Complexes: An X-ray, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR), and Electron Nuclear Double Resonance (ENDOR) Study

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

Mono- and Bimetallic Zwitterionic Chromium(0) and Tungsten(0) Allenyls

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

Mono- and dinuclear Ni(i) products formed upon bromide abstraction from the Ni(i) ring-expanded NHC complex [Ni(6-Mes)(PPh3)Br].

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

Mononuclear and dinuclear complexes with a [Ru(tBu2PCH2CH2PtBu2)(CO)] core.

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N-Alkylation of phenethylamine and tryptamine

scientific article published in February 2005

Ni(I) and Ni(II) ring-expanded N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: C-H activation, indole elimination and catalytic hydrodehalogenation

scientific article published on 18 June 2010

Photochemical isomerization of N-heterocyclic carbene ruthenium hydride complexes: in situ photolysis, parahydrogen, and computational studies

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Reductive Elimination at Carbon under Steric Control

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Room Temperature Regioselective Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of Fluoroarenes with trans-[Ru(NHC)4 H2 ] through a Concerted Nucleophilic Ru-H Attack Pathway

scientific article published on 9 January 2017

Ruthenium bidentate phosphine complexes for the coordination and catalytic dehydrogenation of amine- and phosphine-boranes.

scientific article published on 15 June 2011

Ruthenium induced C-N bond activation of an N-heterocyclic carbene: isolation of C- and N-bound tautomers

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Ruthenium xantphos complexes in hydrogen transfer processes: reactivity and mechanistic studies

scientific article published in January 2009

Ruthenium-catalyzed meta sulfonation of 2-phenylpyridines

scientific article published on 09 November 2011

Stereoelectronic Effects in C–H Bond Oxidation Reactions of Ni(I) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes

scientific article published on 27 June 2014

Stoichiometric and catalytic C-F bond activation by the trans-dihydride NHC complex [Ru(IEt2Me2)2(PPh3)2H2] (IEt2Me2 = 1,3-diethyl-4,5-dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene).

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Stoichiometric and catalytic reactivity of the N-heterocyclic carbene ruthenium hydride complexes [Ru(NHC)(L)(CO)HCl] and [Ru(NHC)(L)(CO)H(eta2-BH4)] (L=NHC, PPh3).

scientific article published on 26 March 2008

Structure, Reactivity, and Computational Studies of a Novel Ruthenium Hydrogen Sulfide Dihydride Complex

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Substitution and derivatization reactions of a water soluble iron(II) complex containing a self-assembled tetradentate phosphine ligand.

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Substitution reactions of [Ru(dppe)(CO)(H(2)O)(3)][OTf](2).

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Synthesis and characterization of phosphorescent two-coordinate copper(i) complexes bearing diamidocarbene ligands.

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

Synthesis, Electronic Structure, and Magnetism of [Ni(6-Mes)2]+: A Two-Coordinate Nickel(I) Complex Stabilized by Bulky N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

scientific article published on 04 September 2013

Synthesis, characterization, and electrochemistry of a series of iron(II) complexes containing self-assembled 1,5-diaza-3,7-diphosphabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane ligands.

scientific article published in October 2009

Synthetic Access to Ring-Expanded N-Heterocyclic Carbene (RE-NHC) Copper Complexes and Their Performance in Click Chemistry

scientific article published in 2021

The first ring-expanded NHC-copper(I) phosphides as catalysts in the highly selective hydrophosphination of isocyanates

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

The influence of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) on the reactivity of [Ru(NHC)(4)H](+) with H(2), N(2), CO and O(2).

scientific article published in October 2009

The reaction of M(CO)3(Ph2PCH2CH2PPh2) (M = Fe, Ru) with parahydrogen: probing the electronic structure of reaction intermediates and the internal rearrangement mechanism for the dihydride products

scientific article published on 25 August 2004

Three-coordinate nickel(I) complexes stabilised by six-, seven- and eight-membered ring n-heterocyclic carbenes: synthesis, EPR/DFT studies and catalytic activity

scientific article published on 4 January 2013

Transforming PPh3 into bidentate phosphine ligands at Ru-Zn heterobimetallic complexes

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Transition metal catalysed reactions of alcohols using borrowing hydrogen methodology.

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Unexpected migratory insertion reactions of M(alkyl)2 (M=Zn, Cd) and diamidocarbenes

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Water-soluble hydroxyalkylated phosphines: examples of their differing behaviour toward ruthenium and rhodium

scientific article published on 16 November 2004

Well-Defined Heterobimetallic Reactivity at Unsupported Ruthenium-Indium Bonds.

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Zn-Promoted C-H Reductive Elimination and H2 Activation via a Dual Unsaturated Heterobimetallic Ru-Zn Intermediate

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

[Ru(NHC)(xantphos)(CO)H(2)] complexes: intramolecular C-H activation and applications in C-C bond formation

scientific article published on 27 May 2009

[Ru3(6-NHC)(CO)10]: synthesis, characterisation and reactivity of rare 46-electron tri-ruthenium clusters.

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

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