2012

Zhu, Lei; Yempally, Veeranna; Isrow, Derek; Pellechia, Perry J.; Captain, Burjor. “Radical exchanges and structural transformations on the iron carbonyl-bulky tin cluster complex, Fe2(m-SnBut2)2(CO)8 by solvents toluene, xylenes and ethylbenzene.” Journal of Cluster Science, 2012, accepted.

Manzoli, Maela; Shetti, Vasudev N.; Blaine, JonathanA. L.; Zhu, Lei; Isrow, Derek; Yempally, Veeranna; Captain, Burjor; Coluccia, Salvatore; Raja, Robert; Gianotti, Enrica. “RuxPtySnz cluster-derived nanoparticles catalysts: spectroscopic investigation into the nature of active multinuclear single sites.” Daltan Transactions 2012, 41, 982-989.

2011

Uffalussy, Karen J.; Captain, Burjor K.; Adams, Richard D.; Hungria, Ana B.; Monnier, John. R.; Amiridis, Michael .D. “Synthesis and characterization of cluster-derived PtRu5Sn catalysts.” ACS Catalysis, 2011, 1, 1710-1718.

Cai, Xiaochen; Majumdar, Subhojit; Fortman, George C.; Frutos, Luis M.; Temprado, Manuel; Clough, Christopher R.; Cummins, Christopher C.; Germain, Meaghan E.; Palluccio, Taryn; Rybak-Akimova, Elena V.;  Captain, Burjor; Hoff, Carl, D. “Thermodynamic, kinetic, and mechanistic study of oxygen atom transfer from mesityl nitrile oxide to phosphines and to a terminal metal phosphido complex.” Inorganic Chemistry 2011, 50, 9620-9630.

Gujrati, Maneesh D.; Kumar, N. S. Saleesh; Brown, Adrienne S.; Captain, Burjor; Wilson James N. “Luminescent charge transfer complexes: Tuning emission in binary fluorophore mixtures.” Langmuir 2011, 27, 6554-6558.

Isrow, Derek; Captain, Burjor. “Synthesis and reactivity of a transition metal complex containing exclusively TEMPO ligands: Ni(h2-TEMPO)2.” Inorganic Chemistry 2011, 50, 5864-5866.

Yi, Song; Captain, Burjor; Kaifer, Angel. “The importance of methylation in the binding of (ferrocenylmethyl)- tempammonium guests by cucurbit[n]uril (n = 7, 8) hosts.” Chemical Communications 2011, 47, 5500-5502.

Yi, Song; Captain, Burjor; Ottaviani, M. Francesca; Kaifer, Angel. “Controlling the extent of spin exchange coupling in tempo biradicals via molecular recognition with cucurbit[n]uril hosts” Langmuir 2011, 27, 5624-5632.

Mondal, Barnali; Captain, Burjor; Ramamurthy, Vaidyanathan. “Proton templated photodimerization of azastilbenes in solid state.” Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 2011, 10,891-894.

Chen, Jinshui; Captain, Burjor; Takenaka, Norito. “Helical chiral 2,2’-bipyridine N-monoxides as catalysts in the enantioselective propargylation of aldehydes with allenyltrichlorosilane.” Organic Letters 2011, 13, 1654-1657.

Siani, Attilio; Captain, Burjor; Adams, Richard D.; Alexeev, Oleg S.; Amiridis, Michael D. “Synthesis and structural characterization of cluster-derived PtFe2/SiO2 catalysts.” Topics in Catalysis 2011, 54, 318-333.

Cai, Xiaochen; Majumdar, Subhojit; Fortman, George; Cazin, Catherine; Slawin, Alex; Lhermitte, Charles; Prabhakar, Rajeev; Germain, Meaghan; Palluccio, Taryn; Nolan, Steven; Rybak Akimova, Elena; Temprado, Manuel; Captain, Burjor; Hoff, Carl D. “Oxygen binding to [Pd(L)(L’)] (L = NHC, L’ = NHC or PR3, NHC = N-Heterocyclic Carbene ). Synthesis and structure of a paramagnetic trans-[Pd(NHC)2(h1-O2)2] complex.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011, 133, 1290-1293.

2010

Bhogala, Balakrishna, R.; Captain, Burjor; Parthasarathy, Anand; Ramamurthy, Vaidyanathan. “Thiourea as a template for photodimerization of azastilbenes.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, 132, 13434–13442.

Yempally, Veeranna; Zhu, Lei; Captain, Burjor. “Reversible hydrogen activation by the Pt complex Pt(SnBut3)2(CNBut)2.” Inorganic Chemistry, 2010, 49, 7238-7240.

Yempally, Veeranna; Zhu, Lei; Isrow, Derek; Captain, Burjor. “Synthesis and characterization of bimetallic nickel and cobalt carbonyl complexes containing stannyl groups.” Journal of Cluster Science, 2010, 21, 417-426.

Takenaka, Norito; Chen, Jinshui; Captain, Burjor ; Sarangthem, Robindro S.; Chandrakumar, Appayee. “Helical chiral 2-aminopyridinium ions: A new class of hydrogen bond donor catalysts.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, 132, 4536-4537.

Saha, Sumit; Zhu, Lei; Captain, Burjor. “Synthesis and structural characterization of bimetallic iron-nickel carbido cluster complexes.” Inorganic Chemistry, 2010, 49, 3465-3472.

Zhu, Lei; Yempally, Veeranna; Isrow, Derek; Pellechia, Perry J.; Captain, Burjor. “Selective benzylic C-H activation of solvent toluene and m-xylene by an iron-tin cluster complex: Fe2(m-SnBut2)2(CO)8.” Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2010, 695, 1-5.

2009

Yempally, Veeranna; Zhu, Lei; Captain, Burjor. “A bimetallic iron-nickel cluster from the reaction of nickelocene with pentairon carbonyl carbide cluster complex.” Journal of Cluster Science, 2009, 20, 695-705.

Jayaraj, Nithyanandhan; Porel, Mintu; Ottaviani, M. Francesca; Maddipatla, V. S. N.; Modelli, Alberto; Da Silva, José P.; Bhogala, Balakrishna, R.; Captain, Burjor; Jockusch, Steffen; Turro, Nicholas J.; Ramamurthy, V. “Self aggregation of supramolecules of cucurbit[8]uril and nitroxide revealed by EPR spectra.” Langmuir, 2009, 25, 13820-13832.

Achord, Patrick; Fujita, Etsuko; Mukerman, James T.; Scott, Brian; Fortman, George, C.; Temprado, Manuel; Cai, Xiaochen; Captain, Burjor; Isrow, Derek; Weir, John J.; McDonough, James Eric; Hoff, Carl, D. “Experimental and computational studies of binding of dinitrogen, nitriles, azides, diazoalkanes, pyridine and pyrazines to M(PR3)2(CO)3 (M=Mo, W; R=Me, iPr).” Inorganic Chemistry, 2009, 48, 7891-7904.

Fortman, George C.; Captain, Burjor; Hoff, Carl D. “Stoichiometric and catalytic conversion of 1-adamantyl azide to 1-adamantyl isocyanate by [Cr(CO)3Cp]2 and reaction with Mo(CO)3(PiPr3)2 to form Mo(κ2-iPr3P=N-N=N-Ad)(CO)3(PiPr3).” Organometallics, 2009, 28, 3587-3590.

Fortman, George C.; Captain, Burjor; Hoff, Carl D. “Thermodynamic investigations of the staudinger reaction of trialkylphosphines with 1-adamantyl azide and the isolation of an unusual s-cis phosphazide.” Inorganic Chemistry, 2009, 48, 1808-1810.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor. “Unusual structures and reactivity of mixed metal cluster complexes containing the palladium/platinum tri-t-butylphosphine grouping.” Accounts of Chemical Research, 2009, 42, 409-418.

2008

Takenaka, Norito; Sarangthem, Robindro S. ; Captain, Burjor. “Helical-chiral pyridine N-Oxides, a new family of asymmetric catalysts: Exploring catalyst structure – enantioselectivity trends.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2008, 47, 9708-9710.
           
Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Trufan, Eszter. “Ruthenium-Tin complexes from the reaction of HSnPh3 with Ru3(CO)10(NCMe)2 and their reactions with bis(tri-t-butylphosphine)platinum.” Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2008, 693, 3593-3602.
           
Adams, Richard D.; Blom, Douglas A.; Captain, Burjor; Raja, Robert; Thomas, John M.; Trufan, Eszter.“The exceptional benefits of tin in bimetallic nanocluster catalysts for the solvent-free hydrogenation of cyclododecatriene (CDT) to cyclododecene (CDE).” Langmuir 2008, 24, 9223-9226.
           
Adams, Richard D.; Boswell, Erin M.; Captain, Burjor; Shaobin Miao; Beddie, Chad L.; Webster, Charles  E.; Hall, Michael B.; Dalal Naresh; Kaur, Narpinder, Zipse David. “Disulfido iron-manganese carbonyl cluster complexes. Synthesis, structure, bonding and properties of the radical CpFeMn2(CO)7(μ3-S2)2.” Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2008, 693, 2732-2738.
           
Siani, Attilio; Alexeev, Oleg S.; Captain, Burjor; Lafaye, Gwendoline; Marécot, Patrice, Adams, Richard D.; Amiridis, Michael D. “Synthesis of cluster-derived PtFe/SiO2 catalysts for the oxidation of CO.” Journal of Catalysis 2008, 255, 162-179.

Adams, Richard D.; Boswell, Erin M.; Captain, Burjor. “Synthesis and properties of an unusual new high symmetry osmium-palladium carbonyl cluster complex.” Organometallics 2008, 27, 1169-1173.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Pearl, William C. Jr. “Facile cleavage of a phenyl group from SbPh3 by dirhenium carbonyl complexes.” Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2008, 693, 1636-1644.

Thomas, John M.; Adams, Richard D.; Boswell, Erin M.; Captain, Burjor; Gronbeck, Henrik; Raja, Robert. “Synthesis, characterization, electronic structure and catalytic performance of bimetallic and trimetallic nanoparticles containing tin.” Faraday Discussions 2008, 138, 301-315.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor “Hydrogen activation by unsaturated mixed metal cluster complexes: New directions.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2008, 47, 252-257.

Adams, Richard D.; Boswell, Erin M.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei. “Platinum-ruthenium cluster complexes from the reaction of Ru3(CO)12 with Pt(PBut3)2.” Journal of Cluster Science 2008, 19, 121-132.

2007

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Pellechia, Perry J.“Studies of ligand additions to coordinatively unsaturated dirhenium complexes containing the bulky PBut3 ligand.” Organometallics 2007, 26, 6564-6575.

Adams, Richard D.; Boswell, Erin M.; Captain, Burjor; Hungria, Ana B.; Midgley, Paul; Raja, Robert; Thomas, John M. “Bimetallic Ru–Sn nanoparticle catalysts for the solvent-free selective hydrogenation of 1,5,9-cyclododecatriene to cyclododecene.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2007, 46, 8182-8185.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor “Polynuclear transition metal cluster complexes containing tin ligands: Precursors to new heterogeneous nano-catalysts.” In Turning points in solid-state, materials and surface chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 2007, Chapter 31, Pg 534-549.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Hall, Michael B.; Trufan, Eszter; Yang, Xinzheng. “The synthesis, characterization and electronic structures of a series of 2-dimensional trimetallic cluster complexes, Ru3(CO)9(μ-SnPh2)3[Pt(PBut3)]x, x = 0 – 3.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007, 129, 12328 - 12340.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Trufan, Eszter “Ruthenium carbonyl cluster complexes with phenylgermyl ligands from the reactions of Ph3GeH with Ru(CO)5 and Ru3(CO)12” Journal of Cluster Science 2007, 18, 642-659.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhang, Qian-F.“Synthesis and structures of new copper-indium thiolate cluster complexes.” Zeitschrift fur Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie 2007, 633, 2187-2190.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor“Saturated vs. Unsaturated: Ligand addition to the saturated metal site in an unsaturated binuclear metal complex.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2007, 46, 5714-5716.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Trufan, Eszter; Zhu, Lei. “Activation of metal hydride complexes by tri-t-butylphosphine-platinum and -palladium groups.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007, 129, 7545-7556.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei. “The addition of Pt(PBut3) to osmium-tin cluster complexes.” Inorganic Chemistry 2007, 46, 4605-4611.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Smith, Mark D.; Beddie, Chad L.; Hall, Michael B. “Unsaturated platinum-rhenium cluster complexes. Synthesis, structures and reactivity.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007, 129, 5981-5991.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei. “Facile activation of hydrogen by an unsaturated platinum-osmium cluster complex.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007, 129, 2454-2455.

Adams, Richard D.; Boswell, Erin M.; Captain, Burjor; Patel, Mithul A.“Multiple additions of phenylgermanium ligands to tetraruthenium and tetraosmium carbonyl cluster complexes.” Inorganic Chemistry 2007, 46, 533-540.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Beddie, Chad L.; Hall, Michael B. “Photo-reversible hydrogen activation by a highly unsaturated platinum-rhenium complex.”  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007, 129, 986-1000.

2006

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei “Platinum promoted insertion of an alkyne into a metal-hydrogen bond.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2006, 128, 13672-13673.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Pearl, William C. Jr. “Bimetallic clusters of iron with palladium and platinum. Synthesis and structures of Fe2(CO)9[M(PBut3)]2 (M = Pd or Pt) and Fe2(CO)8[Pt(PBut3)]2(μ-H)2.” Inorganic Chemistry 2006, 45, 8283-8287.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei. “Cluster fragmentation and facile cleavage of phenyl groups from the SnPh3 ligand in reactions of Os3(CO)11(SnPh3)(μ-H) with CO and HSnPh3.” Organometallics 2006, 25, 4183-4187.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Hollandsworth, Carl B.; Johansson, Mikael; Smith, Jack L. Jr. “Synthesis and structures of oxo-bridged distannyl- and digermyldirhenium complexes.” Organometallics 2006, 25, 3848-3855.

Hungria, Ana B.; Raja, Robert; Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Thomas, John M.; Midgley, Paul A. Golvenko, Vladimir; Johnson, Brian F. G. “Single-step conversion of dimethyl terephthalate to cyclohexanedimethanol with a trimetallic nanoparticle catalyst:  Ru5PtSn.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2006, 45, 4782-4785.

Siani, Attilio; Captain, Burjor; Alexeev, Oleg S.; Stafyla, Eirini; Adams, Richard D.; Amiridis, Micahel D. “Improved CO oxidation activity in the presence and absence of hydrogen over cluster-derived PtFe/SiO2 catalysts.” Langmuir 2006, 22, 5160-5167.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei “A new tris-(diphenylstannylene)triosmium carbonyl cluster complex and its reactions with Pt(PBut3)2 and Pt(PPh3)4.” Organometallics 2006, 25, 2049-2054.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei “The importance of cluster fragmentation in the catalytic hydrogenation of phenylacetylene by PtRu5 carbonyl cluster complexes.” Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2006, 691, 3122-3128.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Smith, Mark D. “New highly unsaturated platinum – rhenium cluster complex activates hydrogen reversibly.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2006, 45, 1109-1112.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei “Pd(PBut3) adducts of Os3(CO)12. Synthesis and structures of Pd2Os3(CO)12(PBut3)2 and Pd3Os3(CO)12(PBut3)3.” Journal of Cluster Science 2006, 17, 87-95.

2005

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei “Addition of alkynes to high nuclearity platinum-ruthenium carbonyl cluster complexes.” Journal of Cluster Science 2005, 16, 397-411.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei“Synthesis of PtRu5(CO)14(PBut3)(m-H)2(m6-C) and its reactions with Pt(PBut3)2, HGePh3, and HSnPh3.” Inorganic Chemistry 2005, 44, 6623-6631.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Herber, Rolfe H.; Johansson, M.; Nowik, Israel; Smith, Jack L. Jr.; Smith, Mark D.“Addition of palladium and platinum tri-tert-butylphosphine groups to Re-Sn and Re-Ge bonds.” Inorganic Chemistry 2005, 44, 6346-6358.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei. “New high nuclearity platinum-ruthenium carbonyl cluster complexes containing a phenylacetylene ligand: Structures and properties.” Organometallics 2005, 24, 2419-2423.

Reger, Daniel L.; Semeniuc, Radu F.; Captain, Burjor; Smith, Mark D.“An unprecedented coordination mode of the tris(pyrazolyl)methane donor set in {[Ph2(O)POCH2C(pz)3Ag]2(THF)2}(BF4)2: κ2-κ1 bimetallic, Ns/Np chelating.” Inorganic Chemistry 2005, 44, 2995-2997.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor “Highly unsaturated platinum-rhenium cluster complex adds an unusually large amount of hydrogen.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2005, 44, 2531-2533.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Smith, Jack L. Jr. “High-nuclearity iridium carbonyl clusters containing phenylgermyl ligands: Synthesis, structures, and reactivity.” Inorganic Chemistry 2005, 44, 1413-1420.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Hall, Michael B.; Smith, Jack L. Jr.; Webster, C. E. “High nuclearity iridium-platinum clusters. Synthesis, structures, bonding and reactivity.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 127, 1007-1014.

2004

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Smith, Jack L. Jr.; Hall, Michael B.; Beddie, Chad L.; Webster, Charles  E. “Superloading of tin ligands into rhodium and iridium carbonyl cluster complexes.” Inorganic Chemistry 2004, 43, 7576-7578.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor“Bimetallic cluster complexes: synthesis, structures and applications to catalysis.” Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2004, 689, 4521-4529.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei; Pellechia, Perry J.“Addition of Pt(PBut3) groups to Ru5(CO)12(h6-C6H6)(m5-C). Synthesis, structures, and dynamical activity.” Inorganic Chemistry 2004, 43, 7243-7249.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Fu, W.; Hall, Michael B.; Smith, Mark D.; Webster, Charles  E. “Dinuclear ruthenium and iron complexes containing palladium and platinum with tri-tert-butylphosphine ligands: Synthesis, structures, and bonding.” Inorganic Chemistry 2004, 43, 3921-3929.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Smith, Mark D. “High nuclearity bimetallic rhodium–palladium carbonyl cluster complexes. Synthesis and characterization of Rh6(CO)16[Pd(PBut3)]3 and Rh6(CO)16[Pd(PBut3)]4.” Journal of Cluster Science 2004, 15, 139-149.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Fu, Wei; Hall, Michael B.; Manson, J.; Smith, Mark D.; Webster, Charles  E. “Bimetallic Cluster Complexes: The synthesis, structures, and bonding of ruthenium carbonyl cluster complexes containing palladium and platinum with the bulky tri-tert-butyl-phosphine ligand.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2004, 126, 5253-5267.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Pellechia, Perry J.; Smith, Jack L. Jr.“Platinum-rhodium carbonyl clusters: New structures and new types of dynamical activity.” Inorganic Chemistry, 2004, 43, 2695-2702.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Kwon, O-Sung; Pellechia, Perry J.; Sanyal Sanghamitra “Synthesis and properties of oligomers of iron–manganese carbonyl complexes with bridging disulfido ligands.” Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2004, 689, 1370-1376.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Zhu, Lei. “Platinum participation in the hydrogenation of phenylacetylene by Ru5(CO)15(C)[Pt(PBut3)].”Journal of the American Chemical Society 2004, 126, 3042-3043.

Adams, Richard D.; Captain, Burjor; Fu, Wei; Smith, Jack L. Jr.; Smith, Mark D. “Addition of platinum and palladium tri-tert-butyl phosphine groups to open Pt-Fe and Pt-Ru metal carbonyl clusters.” Organometallics 2004, 23, 589-594.