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171. "Iron(II) Complexes for the Efficient Catalytic Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones." Chem. Eur. J. 2009,17 5605-5610. At the journal website.
170. W. W. N. O, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris "Synthesis and Characterization of Nitrile-Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Their Complexes of Silver(I) and Rhodium(I)"Organometallics 2009, 28, 853-862 (At the journal website).
169. "Synthesis and Characterization of Iron(II) Complexes with Tetradentate Diiminodiphosphine or Diaminodiphosphine Ligands as Precatalysts for the Hydrogenation of Acetophenone." Inorg. Chem. 2009,48 735-743. At the Inorg. Chem. website).
168. A. A. Mikhailine, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris "Efficient Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by an Iron Complex Containing a P-N-N-P Tetradentate Ligand Formed by Template Synthesis" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009,131, 1394-1395(At the journal website).
167. M. Zimmer-De Iuliis, I. D. G. Watson, A. K. Yudin, R. H. Morris "A DFT Investigation into the Origin of Regioselectivity in Palladium-catalyzed Allylic Amination." Can. J. Chem. 2009,87 54-62 (invited for special issue dedicated to R. Puddephatt) (At the Can. J. Chem. website).
165. A. A. Mikhailine, E. Kim, C. Dingels, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris "Template Syntheses of Iron(II) Complexes Containing Chiral P-N-N-P and P-N-N Ligands for Use as Asymmetric Catalysts."Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 6587-6589 (At the journal website).
163. F. N. Haque, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris. "Ruthenium Hydrogenation Catalysts With P-N-N-P Ligands Derived from 1,3-Diaminopropane and the Formation of a b-Diiminate Complex by a Base-induced Isomerization." Inorg. Chim. Acta 2008,361 3149-3158 (invited for special issue dedicated to R. Angelici) (At the Science Direct website).
162. R. H. Morris. "Dihydrogen, dihydride and in-between: NMR and Structural Properties of Iron Group Complexes" Coord. Chem. Rev. 2008,252 2381-2394 (invited for special issue on NMR in Inorganic Chemistry) (At the journal website).
161. X. Zhao, N. Ivanova, A. Hadzovic, M. Zimmer-De Iuliis, A. Lough, R. H. Morris "Use of an Iodide-modified Merrifield Resin in the Synthesis of Coordinately Unsaturated Ruthenium Complexes. The Structure of RuHI((R,R)-binap)(PPh3)." Organometallics 2008,27, 503 - 508 (At the Organometallics website).
160. Sui-Seng, C.; Freutel, F.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H.Highly Efficient Catalyst Systems Using Iron Complexes with a Tetradentate PNNP Ligand for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Polar Bonds. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2008,47, 940-943(At the journal website).
159. Li, T.; Bergner, I.; Haque, F. N.; Iuliis, M. Z.-D.; Song, D.; Morris, R. H. The hydrogenation of benzonitrile to benzylamine catalyzed by ruthenium hydride complexes with P-NH-NH-P ligands. Organometallics 2007,26, 5940 - 5949 (At the Organometallics website).
158. Hadzovic, A.; MacLaughlin, C. M.; Song, D.; Morris, R. H. A Mechanism Displaying Autocatalysis: the Hydrogenation of Acetophenone Catalyzed by RuH(S-binap)(app) Where app is the Amido Ligand Derived from 2-Amino-2-(2-pyridyl)-propane. Organometallics 2007, 26, 5987 - 5999.
157. Sui-Seng, C.; Hadzovic, A.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Novel Hydrido-Ruthenium(II) Complexes of Histidine Derivatives and Their Application in the Hydrogenation of Ketones Dalton Transactions 2007, 2536 - 2541 (featured on cover).
156. Hinman, J. G.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Properties of the Polyhydride Anions [WH5(PMe2Ph)3]- and [ReH4(PMePh2)3]- and Periodic Trends in the Acidity of Polyhydride Complexes Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 4392 - 4401 (featured on cover).
155. Li, T.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. An Acidity Scale of Tetrafluoroborate Salts of Phosphonium and Iron Hydride Compounds in Dichloromethane-d2 Chem. Eur. J. 2007, 13, 3796-3803.
154. Clapham, S. E.; Guo, R.; Iuliis, M. Z.-D.; Rasool, N.; Lough, A.; Morris, R. H. Probing the Effect of the Ligand X on the Properties and Catalytic Activity of the Complexes RuHX(diamine)(PPh3)2 (X = OPh, 4-SC6H4OCH3, OPPh2, OP(OEt)2, CCPh, NCCHCN, CH(COOMe)2; diamine = 2,3-diamino-2,3-dimethylbutane or (R,R)-1,2-diaminocyclohexane) Organometallics 2006, 25, 5477 - 5486.

153.  A. Hadzovic, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, P. G. Pringle, D. E. Zambrano-Williams. Ketone H2-hydrogenation catalysts: ruthenium complexes with the headphone-like ligand bis(phosphaadamantyl)propane. Inorg. Chim. Acta 2006, 359, 2864–2869  (special issue in honour of Brian James).
152. Li, T.; Lough, A. J.; Zuccaccia, C.; Macchioni, A.; Morris, R. H. An acidity scale of phosphonium tetraphenylborate salts and ruthenium dihydrogen complexes in dichloromethane Can. J. Chem. 2006, 84, 164-175.
150. R. H. Morris “Ruthenium and Osmium.” In The Handbook of Homogeneous Hydrogenation; Elsevier, C. J., de Vries, J. G., Eds.; WILEY-VCH: New York, pp 45-70, 2006.
149. R. H. Morris “Hydrogenases and Model Complexes” In Concepts and Models in Bioinorganic Chemistry; B. Kraatz and N. Metzler-Nolte,  Ed.; VCH-Wiley, Weinheim, pp 329-360, 2006.
148. Guo, R.; Elpelt, C.; Chen, X.; Song, D.; Morris, R. H. A Modular Design of Ruthenium Catalysts with Diamine and Binol-derived Phosphinite Ligands that are Enantiomerically-Matched for the Effective Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Simple Ketones Chem. Commun. 2005, 3050–3052.

 
146. Guo, R.; Elpelt, C.; Chen, X.; Song, D.; Morris, R. H. Applications of Ruthenium Hydride Borohydride Complexes Containing Phosphinite and Diamine Ligands to Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 1757 - 1759.
145. Abdur-Rashid, K.; Abbel, R.; Hadzovic, A.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Chemistry of Ruthenium(II) Monohydride and Dihydride Complexes Containing Pyridyl Donor Ligands Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 2483-2492.

 
144. Clapham, S. E.; Morris, R. H. Reactions of the amido hydrido complex of osmium, OsH(NHCMe2CMe2NH2)(PPh3)2: HX addition, HX transfer and ketone H2-hydrogenation Organometallics 2005, 24, 479-481.

 
143. Guo, R.; Morris, R. H.; Song, D. Enantioselective Tandem Michael Addition/H2-Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Ruthenium Hydride Borohydride Complexes Containing Beta-aminophosphine Ligands J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 516 - 517.
142. Abdur-Rashid, K.; Guo, R.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H.; Song, D. Synthesis of ruthenium hydride complexes containing beta-aminophosphine ligands derived from amino acids and their use in the H2-hydrogenation of ketones and imines Adv. Syn. Catal. 2005, 347, 571-579.
141. Abbel, R.; Abdur-Rashid, K.; Faatz, M.; Hadzovic, A.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. A Succession of Dihydride Isomers of Ruthenium. Which One is the Ketone Hydrogenation Catalyst? J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 1870-1882.
139. Li, T.; Churlaud, R.; Lough, A. J.; Abdur-Rashid, K.; Morris, R. H. Dihydridoamine and Hydridoamido Complexes of Ruthenium(II) With a Tetradentate P-N-N-P Donor Ligand Organometallics 2004, 23, 6239 - 6247.
138. Guo, R.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H.; Song, D. Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by Ruthenium Hydride Complexes of a Beta-aminophosphine Ligand Derived from Norephedrine Organometallics 2004, 23, 5524-5529.
137. Song, D.; Morris, R. H. Cyclometallated Amine and Amido Ligands in Pt(II) and Pd(II) Complexes and A Novel Potassium Alkoxide Aggregate Organometallics 2004, 23, 4406-4413.

 
136. Clapham, S. E.; Hadzovic, A.; Morris, R. H. Mechanisms of the H2-Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation of Polar Bonds Catalyzed by Ruthenium Hydride Complexes Coord. Chem. Rev. 2004, 248, 2201-2237.
135. Abdur-Rashid, K.; Fedorkiw, T.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Coordinatively Unsaturated Hydridoruthenium(II) Complexes of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Organometallics 2004, 23, 86-94.
134. Rautenstrauch, V.; Hoang-Cong, X.; Churlaud, R.; Abdur-Rashid, K.; Morris, R. H. Hydrogenation versus Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones: Two Established Ruthenium Systems Catalyze Both Chem. Eur. J. 2003, 9, 4954-4967.
133. Abdur-Rashid, K.; Clapham, S. E.; Hadzovic, A.; Harvey, J. N.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Mechanism of the Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by trans-Dihydrido(diamine)ruthenium(II) Complexes J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 15104-15118.
131. V. Rautenstrauch, R. Challand, R. Churlaud, R.H. Morris, K. Abdur-Rashid. "Process for hydrogenation of carbonyl and iminocarbonyl compounds using ruthenium catalysts comprising tetradentate diimino-diphosphine ligands." EP 1337334 (Europe)/ CA 2,428,824 (Canada)/ US 2004/0015017 (USA) issued as US6,878,852 (Apr 2005)/ IL 155869 (Israel), JP 2002-542516 / JP2004513929T (Japan).  

130. Landau, S. E.; Groh, K. E.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Large Effects of Ion Pairing and Protonic-Hydridic Bonding on the Stereochemistry and Basicity of Crown-, Azacrown-, and Cryptand-222-potassium Salts of Anionic Tetrahydride Complexes of Iridium(III) Inorg. Chem. 2002, 41, 2995 -3007.
129. Abdur-Rashid, K.; Faatz, M.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. Catalytic Cycle for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Prochiral Ketones to Chiral Alcohols: Direct Hydride and Proton Transfer from Chiral Catalysts trans-Ru(H)2(diphosphine)(diamine) to Ketones and Direct Addition of Dihydrogen to the Resulting Hydridoamido Complexes J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 7473-7474.

 
128. Hinman, J. G.; Abdur-Rashid, K.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. [{ReH2(PMePh2)2}2(m-H)3]-: The first member of a new class of anionic polyhydride dimers Inorg. Chem. 2001, 40, 2480-2481.
126. Abdur-Rashid, K.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. RuHCl(diphosphine)(diamine): Catalyst Precursors for the Stereoselective Hydrogenation of Ketones and Imines Organometallics 2001, 20, 1047-1049.
125. Morris, R. H. "Non-classical hydrogen bonding along the pathway to the heterolytic splitting of dihydrogen"  in Transition Metal Hydrides, M. Perruzini and R. Poli, Ed.; VCH: Amsterdam, 1-38, 2001.
121. Abdur-Rashid, K.; Fong, T. P.; Greaves, B.; Gusev, D. G.; Hinman, J. G.; Landau, S. E.; Lough, A. J.; Morris, R. H. An Acidity Scale in THF for Phosphorus-containing Compounds Including Metal Hydrides and Dihydrogen Complexes: Toward the Unification of Acidity Scales J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 9155-9171.

120. K. Abdur-Rashid, A.J. Lough and R.H. Morris "Ruthenium dihydride RuH2(PPh3)2(R,R-Cyclohexyldiamine) and Ruthenium Monohydride RuHCl (PPh3)2(R,R-Cyclohexyldiamine): Active Catalyst and Catalyst Precursor for the Hydrogenation of Ketones and Imines" Organometallics 2000, 19, 2655-2657.

115. T.P. Fong, C.E. Forde, A.J. Lough, R.H. Morris, P. Rigo, E. Rocchini and T. Stephan "Synthesis of the acidic dihydrogen complexes trans-[M(H2)(CN)L2]+ and trans-[M(H2)(CNH)L2]2+ where M = Fe, Ru, Os and L = dppm, dppe, dppp, depe, and dihydrogen substitution by the trifluoromethylsulfonate anion to give trans-[Ru(OTf)(CN)L2] or trans-[Ru(OTf)(CNH)L2]OTf"" J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 1999, 4475-4486.
110. K. Abdur-Rashid, D. G. Gusev, S. E. Landau, A. J. Lough and R. H. Morris  "Organizing Chain Structures by Use of Proton-hydride Bonding.  The Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction Structures of [K(Q)][Os(H)5(PiPr3)2] and [K(Q)][Ir(H)4(PiPr3)2], Q= 18-crown-6 and 1,10-diaza-18-crown-6" , J. Am Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 11826-11827.

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