Refereed Publications

2026(top)


295. A. Fishkin and R. H. Morris, "Paramagnetic Transition Metal Hydride Complexes" Chem. Rev. 2026, 126 204-296. 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00531>

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2025(top)


294. T. J. Ajayi, M. Gradiski, A. J. Lough and R. H. Morris, "Synthesis, crystal structure and computational studies of a new cationic manganese complex with a N-(2-(diisopropylphosphinyl)ethyl) quinolin-8-amine ligand" J. Mol. Struct. 2025, 10.1016/j.molstruc.2025.142835>


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292. Tomilola J. Ajayi, Amanda L. Kwan, Alan J. Lough, Robert H. Morris, "A homochiral Nickel(II) complex [Ni(P'N)2]Cl2: Synthesis, characterization, crystal structure, luminescence, DFT and Hirshfeld surface studies" J. Mol. Struct. 2025,10.1016/j.molstruc.2024.140292
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2024(top)


293. Robert H. Morris, "Relationship between Transition-Metal Hydride Bond Lengths and Stretching Wavenumbers" Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63 24482-24487
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291. Robert H. Morris, "Insights into the chemistry of Kubas' chromium dihydrogen complexes" Inorganica Chimica Acta 2024, 569 122147.
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290. Tomilola J. Ajayi, Alan J. Lough and Robert H. Morris, "Mechanochemical Synthesis of Chromium(III) Complexes Containing Bidentate PN, and Tridentate P-NH-P and P-NH-P' Ligands" ACS Omega 2024, 9 19690-19699 open access
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289. Robert H. Morris, "Reactivity Umpolung (Reversal) of Ligands in Transition Metal Complexes" Chemical Society Reviews 2024, 53 2808-2827.
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288. P. Parusel, P. Dutschke, M. Hebenbrock, A. Hepp, R. Morris and F. E. Hahn, "Synthesis of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes by Oxidative Addition of 4-Iodo-Imidazolium Salts Followed by an Unusual Rearrangement" Organometallics 2024, 43 532-539.
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2023(top)


287.Madeleine O. Sattler, Tomilola J. Ajayi, Eric C. Keske, Alan J. Lough and Robert H. Morris, "Synthesis, Spectroscopic Characterization, Crystal Structure, DFT and Hirschfeld Surface Analysis of a Manganese(I) Complex ([Mn(P-NH-NH-P)(CO)2][BPh4])" J. Mol. Struct. 2023, 1291 136028.
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286.Benjamin E. Rennie, Jeffrey S. Price, David J.H. Emslie and Robert H. Morris, "The Trans Ligand Determines the Stability of Paramagnetic Manganese(II) Hydrides of the Type trans-[MnH(L)(dmpe)2]+ Where L is PMe3, C2H4, or CO" Inorganic Chemistry 2023, 62 8123-8135.
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2022(top)


285.P. D. Dutschke, B. T. H. Tsui, M. von Bremen-Kuehne, R. H. Morris and F. E. Hahn, "Methanol Mediated Formation of an Iridium(III) NHC/Azolato Chelate Complex. An Experimental and Theoretical Study" Organometallics 2022, 41 3732-3740. 10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00489

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284. S. J. Oliphant and R. H. Morris, "Density Functional Theory Study on the Selective Reductive Amination of Aldehydes and Ketones Over Their Reductions to Alcohols Using Sodium Triacetoxyborohydride" ACS Omega 2022, 7, 30554-30564 10.1021/acsomega.2c04056,. Open access article

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283. A. L. Kwan and R. H. Morris, "A Plausible Mechanism for the Iridium-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of a Bulky N-Aryl Imine in the (S)-Metolachlor Process" Molecules 2022, 27, 5106. Open access article
in honour of Prof. Henri Kagan

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282. B. T. H. Tsui, M. M. H. Sung, J. Kinas, F. E. Hahn and R. H. Morris, "A Ruthenium Protic N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complex as a Precatalyst for the Efficient Transfer Hydrogenation of Aryl Ketones" Organometallics 2022, 41, 2095-2105. 10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00228
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281. H.-L. Shek, K.-T. Tam, S.-M. Yiu, M.-K. Tse, R. H. Morris and C.-Y. Wong, "Osmium(II)-Induced Rearrangement of Allenols for Metallafuran Complexes," Organometallics 2022, 41, 1931-1941. 10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00113

280. M. V. Gradiski, B. E. Rennie, A. J. Lough and R. H. Morris, "Electronic Insights into Aminoquinoline-Based PNHN Ligands: Protonation State Dictates Geometry While Coordination Environment Dictates N-H Acidity and Bond Strength," Dalton Transactions 2022, 51, 11241-11254. 10.1039/D2DT01556K
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Dalton Transactions HOT Articles

2021(top)

279. Heiko Rebmann, Kai Y. Wan, Alan J. Lough, and Robert H. Morris "Experimental Crystal Structure Determination - PNC pro-ligand" CCDC 2068165 2021, 11, UNOPIZ. 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc27f30t

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278. H. Cai, R. Schimmenti, M. V. Gradiski, R. H. Morris, M. Mavrikakis and Y.-H. C. Chin "Mechanistic Similarities and Differences for Hydrogenation of Aromatic Heterocycles and Aliphatic Carbonyls on Sulfided Ru Nanoparticles" ACS Catalysis 2021, 11, 12585-12608. 10.1021/acscatal.1c01925

277. B. T. Tsui and R. H. Morris "Trans Element-Hydrogen Bonds: A Distinctive Difference Between Transition Metals and Main Group Elements" Inorg. Chem. 2021, 16, 13920-13928. 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00801 Open access preprint abstractimage

276. Non-refereed. R. H. Morris, "Focusing on transition metal hydride complexes" Can. J. Chem. 2021, 99, v-vii. 10.1139/cjc-2020-0507

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275. E. C. Keske, M. O. Sattler, A. J. Lough and R. H. Morris "Tridentate NPN Ligands with a Central Secondary Phosphine Oxide Donor and their Corresponding Metal Complexes" Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2021, 647, 1436-1441. 10.1002/zaac.202100073 abstractimage Open access preprint

274. C. S. G. Seo, B. T. H. Tsui, M. V. Gradiski, S. A. M. Smith, R. H. Morris "Enantioselective direct, base-free hydrogenation of ketones by a manganese amido complex of a homochiral, unsymmetrical P–N–P′ ligand" Catal. Sci. Technol. 2021, 11, 3153-3163. 10.1039/d1cy00446h Open access preprint

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273. S. D. Drouin, P. A. Maltby, B. E. Rennie, C. T. Schweitzer, A. Golombek, E. P. Cappellani, R. H. Morris "Electrochemistry of transition metal hydride diphosphine complexes trans-MH(X)(PP)2 and trans-[MH(L)(PP)2]+, M = Fe, Ru, Os; PP = chelating phosphine ligand" Inorg. Chim. Acta 2021, 516, 120124. 10.1016/j.ica.2020.120124Open access preprint

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259. Tsui, B. T. H.; Keske, E. C.; Demmans, K. Z.; Seo, C. S. G.; Rennie, B. E.; Nemati, A.; Morris, R. H. "Group VII and VIII Hydrogenation Catalysts" in Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry III 2021, 5, 657-714. Book Chapter

2020(top)

272. J. Shangguan, A. Hensley, M. Gradiski, N. Pfriem, J.-S. McEwen, R. Morris, Y.-H. C. Chin "The Role of Protons and Hydrides in the Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of Guaiacol at the Ruthenium Nanoparticle-water Interface" ACS Catalysis 2020, 10, 12310-12332. 10.1021/acscatal.0c01963 Open access preprint

271. B. E. Rennie, R. G. Eleftheriades, R. H. Morris "Systematic Trends in the Electrochemical Properties of Transition Metal Hydride Complexes Discovered by Using the Ligand Acidity Constant Equation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 17607-17629. 10.1021/jacs.0c08000 Open access preprint

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270. B. E. Rennie, R. H. Morris, A. J. Lough "Crystal structure of Bis(di-(R,R-1,2-(binaphthylphosphonito)ethane)iron(II) chloride, bis dichloromethane solvate" Acta Cryst. E. 2020, 76, 1525-1527. 10.1107/S2056989020011160

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269. R. M. Bullock, J. G. Chen, L. Gagliardi, P. J. Chirik, O. K. Farah, C. H. Hendon, C. W. Jones, J. A. Keith, J. Klosin, S. D. Minteer, R. H. Morris, A. T Radosevich, T. B. Rauchfuss, N. A, Stroman, A. Vojvodic, T. R. Ward, J. Y. Yang, Y. Surendranath "Using nature’s blueprint to expand catalysis with Earth-abundant metals" Science 2020, 369. 10.1126/science.abc3183 Open access preprint

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268. M. V. Gradiski, A. Nemati Kharat, M. S. E. Ong, A. J. Lough, S. A. M. Smith, R. H. Morris. "A One-Step Preparation of Tetradentate Ligands with Nitrogen and Phosphorus Donors by Reductive Amination and Representative Iron Complexes" Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 11041-11053. 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01535 Open access preprint

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267. R. H. Morris. "Methane activation by a single copper center in particulate methane monooxygenase: A computational study" Inorganica Chim. Acta 2020, 503, 119441. 10.1016/j.ica.2020.119441 Open access preprint

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2019(top)

266. M. M. H. Sung, D. E. Prokopchuk, R. H. Morris. "Phosphine-free ruthenium NCN-ligand complexes and their use in catalytic CO2 hydrogenation" Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 16569-16577. 10.1039/C9DT03143J Open access preprint

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265. C. S. G. Seo, T. Tannoux, S. A. M. Smith, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris. "Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Activated Aryl Imines Catalyzed by an Iron(II) P-NH-P′ Complex" J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 12040-12049. 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01964 Open access preprint

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264. M. Bauer, J. A. Cadge, D.Davies, D. J. Durand, O. Eisenstein, D. Ess, N. Fey, S. Gallarati, M. George, A. Hamilton, J. Harvey, U. Hintermair, A. N. Hulme, Y. Ishii, V. R. Jensen, G. Lloyd-Jones, J. Love, J. Lynam, S. Macgregor, T. B. Marder, E. J. Meijer, P. Morgan, R. H. Morris, J. Mwansa, A. Odom, R. Perutz, M. Reiher, L. Schafer, J. Slattery, T. Young. "Physical methods for mechanistic understanding: general discussion" Faraday Discuss. 2019, 220, 144-178. 10.1039/C9FD90073J

263. Y. Aoki, M. Bauer, T. Braun, J. A. Cadge, G. E. Clarke, D. J. Durand, O. Eisenstein, S. Gallarati, M. Greaves, J. Harvey, A. Haynes, U. Hintermair, A. N. Hulme, Y. Ishii, M. Jakoobi, V. R. Jensen, P. Kennepohl, S. Kuwata, A. Lei, G. Lloyd-Jones, J. Love, J. Lynam, S. Macgregor, R. H. Morris, D. Nelson, A. Odom, R. Perutz, M. Reiher, J. Renny, J. Roithová, L. Schafer, S. Scott, P. W. Seavill, J. Slattery, T. Takao, J. Walton, J. D. Wilden, C.-Y. Wong, T. Young. "Mechanistic insight into organic and industrial transformations: general discussion" Faraday Discuss. 2019, 220, 282-316. 10.1039/C9FD90072A

262. Y. Aoki, M. Bauer, T. Braun, J. Cadge, D. Davies, D. J. Durand, O. Eisenstein, D. Ess, I. Fairlamb, N. Fey, S. Gallarati, M. George, M. Greaves, M. Halse, A. Hamilton, J. Harvey, A. Haynes, U. Hintermair, A. N. Hulme, Y. Ishii, M. Jakoobi, V. R. Jensen, P. Kennepohl, S. Kuwata, A. Lei, G. Lloyd-Jones, J. Love, K. Lovelock, J. Lynam, S. Macgregor, T. B. Marder, E. J. Meijer, P. Morgan, R. H. Morris, J. Mwansa, D. Nelson, A. Odom, R. Perutz, M. Reiher, J. Renny, J. Roithová, L. Schafer, D. Schilter, S. Scott, J. Slattery, J. Walton, J. D. Wilden, C.-Y. Wong, T. Yaman, T. Young. "Physical methods for mechanistic understanding: general discussion" Faraday Discuss. 2019, 220, 144-178. 10.1039/C9FD90070E

261. R. H. Morris. "Physical insights into mechanistic processes in organometallic chemistry: an introduction" Faraday Discuss. 2019, 220, 10-27. 10.1039/C9FD00083F Open access preprint

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260. D. Schnieders, B. T. H. Tsui, M. M. H. Sung, M. R. Bortolus, G. J. Schrobilgen, J. Neugebauer, R. H. Morris. "Metal Hydride Vibrations: The Trans Effect of the Hydride" Inorg. Chem. 2019, 48, 2150-2159. 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02302 Open access preprint

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258. U. Ulmer, T. Dingle, P. N. Duchesne, R. H. Morris, A. Tavasoli, T. Wood, G. A. Ozin. "Fundamentals and applications of photocatalytic CO2 methanation" Nat. Commun. 2019, 3169 10.1038/s41467-019-10996-2 Open Access

257. M. V. Gradiski, R. H. Morris. "Acetaldehyde, 2-(Diphenylphosphino)-Phenyl Phosphonium Dimer" Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis 2019. 10.1002/047084289X

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256. M. V. Gradiski, B. T. H. Tsui, A. J. Lough and R. H. Morris. "PNN' & P2NN' Ligands via Reductive Amination of Phosphine Acetaldehydes: Synthesis and Base-Metal Coordination Chemistry" Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 2150-2159. 10.1039/C8DT04058C Open access preprint

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255. C. S. G. Seo, R. H. Morris. "Catalytic homogeneous asymmetric hydrogenation - successes and opportunities" Organometallics 2019, 38, 15-21. 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00774 Open access preprint

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254. K. Z. Demmans, M. E. Olson and R. H. Morris. "Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones With Well-Defined Manganese(I) PNN and PNNP Complexes" Organometallics 2019, 37, 4608?4618. 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00625 Open access preprint

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253. M. M. H. Sung, S. Jdanova, R. H. Morris. "Ligand acidity constant as calculated by density functional theory for PF3 and N-Heterocyclic carbene ligands in hydride complexes of Iron(II)" Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2019, 880, 15-21. 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2018.10.024 Open access preprint

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2018(top)

252. R. H. Morris. "Estimating the Wavenumber of Terminal Metal-Hydride Stretching Vibrations of Octahedral d6 Transition Metal Complexes" Inorganic Chemistry 2018, 57, 13809-13821. 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02314 Open access preprint

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251. S. E. Trentowsky, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris. "The effect of the counteranion on the loss of hydrogen from cationic ruthenium dihydrogen complexes in the solid state" Polyhedron 2018, 156, 342-349. 10.1016/j.poly.2018.09.056 Open access preprint

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250. R. H. Morris. "Mechanisms of the H2- and transfer hydrogenation of polar bonds catalyzed by iron group hydrides" Dalton Trans. 2018, 47, 10809-10826. 10.1039/c8dt01804a Open access preprint

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249. R. H. Morris. "Hydride Complexes of the Transition Metals" Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry 2018, xx, xx-xx. 10.1002/9781119951438.eibc0081.pub2

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248. J. P. Unsleber, J. Neugebauer, R. H. Morris. "DFT methods applied to answer the question: how accurate is the Ligand Acidity Constant method for estimating the pKa of transition metal hydride complexes MHXL4 when X is varied?" Dalton Trans. 2018, 47, 2739-2747. 10.1039/C7DT03473C Open access preprint

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247. K. Y. Wan, F. Roelfes, A. J. Lough, F. E. Hahn, R. H. Morris. "Iridium and Rhodium Complexes Containng Enantiopure Primary Amine-Tethered N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Synthesis, Characterization, Reactivity, and Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones" Organometallics 2018, 37, 491-504. 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00915 Open access preprint

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2017(top)

246. R. H. Morris. "A capped trigonal pyramidal molybdenum hydrido complex and an unusually mild sulfur-carbon bond cleavage reaction" Chem. Comm. 2017, 53, 11032-11035. 10.1039/C7CC06372E Open access preprint

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245. K. Y. Wan, M. M. H. Sung, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris. "Half Sandwich Ruthenium Catalyst Bearing an Enantiopure Primary Amine Tethered to an N-heterocyclic Carbene for Ketone Hydrogenation" ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 6827-6842. 10.1021/acscatal.7b02346 Open access preprint

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244. S. A. M. Smith, D. E. Prokopchuk, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris. "Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones Using New Iron(II) (P-NH-N-P') Catalysts: Changing the Steric and Electronic Properties at Phosphorus P'" Israel J. Chem. 2017, 57, 1204-1215. 10.1002/ijch.201700019/full, invited for special issue on Base Metal Catalysis. Open access preprint

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243. R. H. Morris. "Six coordinate capped trigonal bipyramidal complexes" Coord. Chem. Rev. 2017, 350, 105-116. 10.1016/j.ccr.2017.06.019 Open access preprint

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242. K. Z. Demmans, C. S. G. Seo, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "From Imine to Amine: an Unexpected Left Turn. Cis-β Iron (II) PNNP' Precatalysts for the Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Acetophenone" Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 6531-6541. 10.1039/C7SC02558K Open access

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241. S. A. M. Smith, P. O. Lagaditis, A. Lüpke, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Unsymmetrical iron P-NH-P' catalysts for the asymmetric pressure hydrogenation of aryl ketones" Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 7212-7216. 10.1002/chem.201701254 Open access preprint

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240. S. A. M. Smith, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Bromidocarbonyl{(1S,2S)-N-[2-(dicyclohexylphosphanyl)ethylidenyl]-N'-[2-(diphenylphosphanyl)ethyl]-1,2-diphenylethane-1,2-diamine}iron(II) tetraphenylborate" IUCrData 2017, 2. 10.1107/S2414314617004527 Open access

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239. J. F. Sonnenberg, K. Y. Wan, P. E. Sues, R. H. Morris, "Ketone Asymmetric Hydrogenation Catalyzed by P-NH-P' Pincer Iron Catalysts: an Experimental and Computational Study" ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 316-326. 10.1021/acscatal.6b02489 Open access preprint

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2016 (top)

238. A. Zirakzadeh, K. Kirchner, A. Roller, B. Stöger, M. Widhalm, R. H. Morris, "Iron(II) Complexes Containing Chiral Unsymmetrical PNP' Pincer Ligands: Synthesis and Application in Asymmetric Hydrogenations" Organometallics 2016, 35, 3781-3787. 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00711

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237. M. M. H. Sung, R. H. Morris, "DFT Calculations Support the Additive Nature of Ligand Contributions to the pKa of Iron Hydride Phosphine Carbonyl Complexes" Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 9596-9601. 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01274 Open access preprint

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236. R. H. Morris, "Iron Group Hydrides in Noyori Bifunctional Catalysis" Chemical Record 2016, 6, 2640-2654. 10.1002/tcr.201600080 Open access preprint

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235. K. Z. Demmans, O. W. K. Ko, R. H. Morris, "Aqueous Biphasic Iron-Catalyzed Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Aromatic Ketones" RSC Adv. 2016, 6, 88580-88587. 10.1039/C6RA22538A Open access

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233. K. Y. Wan, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Transition Metal Complexes of an (S,S)-1,2-Diphenylethylamine-Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbene: A New Member of the Asymmetric NHC Ligand Family" Organometallics 2016, 35, 1604-1612. 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00031 Open access preprint

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232. D. E. Prokopchuk, A. J. Lough, R. E. Rodriguez-Lugo, R. H. Morris, H. Grützmacher "Insights into metal-ligand hydrogen transfer: a square-planar ruthenate complex supported by a tetradentate amino-amido-diolefin ligand" Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 6138-6141. 10.1039/C6CC00041J Open access

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231. R. H. Morris, "Brønsted-Lowry Acid Strength of Metal Hydride and Dihydrogen Complexes" Chem. Rev. 2016, 116, 8588-8654. 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00695 Open access preprint

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230. W. Zuo, D. E. Prokopchuk, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Details of the Mechanism of the Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Acetophenone Using the Amine(imine)diphosphine Iron Precatalyst: The Base Effect and The Enantiodetermining Step" ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 301-314. 10.1021/acscatal.5b01979 Open access

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2015 (top)

234. P. J. Chirik, R. H. Morris, "Getting down to Earth: The Renaissance of Catalysis with Abundant Metals" Acc. Chem. Res. 2015, 48, 2495-2495. 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00385

229. R. H. Morris, "Exploiting Metal-Ligand Bifunctional Reactions in the Design of Iron Asymmetric Hydrogenation Catalysts" Acc. Chem. Res. 2015, 48, 1494-1502. 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00045 Open access

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227. S. A. M. Smith, R. H. Morris, "An Unsymmetrical Iron Catalyst for the Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones" Synthesis 2015, 47, 1775-1779. 10.1055/s-0034-1380147 Open access preprint

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226. P. O. Lagaditis, P. E. Sues, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Exploring the decomposition pathways of iron asymmetric transfer hydrogenation catalysts" Dalton Trans. 2015, 44, 12119-12127. 10.1039/C4DT02799J Open access preprint

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225. W. Zuo, R. H. Morris, "Synthesis and use of an asymmetric transfer hydrogenation catalyst based on iron(II) for the synthesis of enantioenriched alcohols and amines" Nat. Protoc. 2015, 10, 241-257. 10.1038/nprot.2015.012 Open access preprint

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223. P. E. Sues, K. Cai, D. F. McIntosh, R. H. Morris, "Template Effect and Ligand Substitution Methods for the Synthesis of Iron Catalysts: A Two-Part Experiment for Inorganic Chemistry" J. Chem. Educ. 2015, 92, 378-381. 10.1021/ed500341p Open access

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2014 (top)

224. J. F. Sonnenberg, P. O. Lagaditis, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Synthesis of Iron P-N-P' and P-NH-P' Asymmetric Hydrogenation Catalysts" Organometallics 2014, 33, 6452-6465. 10.1021/om5008083

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222. D. E. Prokopchuk, B. T. H. Tsui, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Intramolecular C-H/O-H Bond Cleavage with Water and Alcohol Using a Phosphine-Free Ruthenium Carbene NCN Pincer Complex" Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 51, 16960-16968. 10.1002/chem.201404819

News article: "Phosphine-Free Ruthenium Complex for Water Splitting" Open access preprint

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221. J. F. Sonnenberg, R. H. Morris, "Distinguishing homogeneous from nanoparticle asymmetric iron catalysis" Catal. Sci. Technol. 2014, 4, 3426-3438. 10.1039/C4CY00468J (From themed collection "Mechanistic Studies in Catalysis.") Open access preprint

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220. W. Zuo, S. Tauer, D. E. Prokopchuk, R. H. Morris, "Iron Catalysts Containing Amine(imine)diphosphine P-NH-N-P Ligands Catalyze both Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones" Organometallics 2014, 33, 5791-5801. 10.1021/om500479q (Invited contribution for a special issue titled "Catalytic and Organometallic Chemistry of Earth-Abundant Metals.") Open access

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219. P. E. Sues, K. Z. Demmans, R. H. Morris, "Rational development of iron catalysts for asymmetric transfer hydrogenation" Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 7650-7667. 10.1039/c4dt00612g Open access

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218. P. E. Sues, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Bromo(N,N-bis(2-(diphenylphosphino)ethylidene)ethylenediamine) (para-toluenesulfonylmethyl-isocyanide)iron(II) tetraphenylborate" Acta Cryst. E. Struct. Reports Online 2014, E70, m144. 10.1107/S1600536814005467 Open access

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217. S. E. Clapham, M. Z.-D. Iuliis, K. Mack, D. E. Prokopchuk, R. H. Morris, "Alcohol Assisted Base-free Hydrogenation of Acetophenone Catalyzed by OsH(NHCMe2CMe2NH2)(PPh3)2" Can. J. Chem. 2014, 92, 731-738. 10.1139/cjc-2014-0060 Open access preprint

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216. P. E. Sues, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Reactivity of Ruthenium Phosphido Species Generated Through the Deprotonation of a Tripodal Phosphine Ligand and Implications for Hydrophosphination" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 4746-4760. 10.1021/ja5006724 Open access

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215. R. H. Morris, "Estimating the Acidity of Transition Metal Hydride and Dihydrogen Complexes by Adding Ligand Acidity Constants" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 1948-1959. 10.1021/ja410718r

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214. P. E. Sues, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "A Sulphur Mimic of 1,1-Bis(diphenylphosphino)methane: A New Ligand Opens Up" Chem Commun. 2014, 50, 4707-4710. 10.1039/C3CC49456J Open access

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213. P. E. Sues, M. W. Forbes, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Ligand-based Molecular Recognition and Dioxygen Splitting: An Endo Epoxide Ending" Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 4137-4145. 10.1039/C3DT53495B Selected as January 2014 hot article by Dalton Transactions. Open access preprint

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212. P. O. Lagaditis, P. E. Sues, J. F. Sonnenberg, K. Y. Wan, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Iron(II) Complexes Containing Unsymmetrical P-N-P' Pincer Ligands for the Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones and Imines" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 1367-1380. 10.1021/ja4082233 Open access

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2013 (top)

210. W. Zuo, A. J. Lough, Y. F. Li, R. H. Morris, "Amine(imine)diphosphine Iron Catalysts for Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones and Imines" Science 2013, 342, 1080-1083. Abstract, Reprint, Full Text

News articles: "Abundant Metals Give Precious Hydrogenation Performance", "Base metal catalysts strike hydrogenation gold" Open access preprint

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209. W. W. N. O, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Primary amine functionalized N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of iridium: Synthesis, structure, and catalysis" Organometallics 2013, 32, 3208-3218. 10.1021/om400180h Open access preprint

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208. A. M. Appel, J. E. Bercaw, A. B. Bocarsly, H. Dobbek, D. L. DuBois, M. Dupuis, J. G. Ferry, E. Fujita, R. Hille, P. J. A. Kenis, C. A. Kerfeld, R. H. Morris, C. H. F. Peden, A. R. Portis, S. W. Ragsdale, T. B. Rauchfuss, J. N. H. Reek, L. C. Seefeldt, R. K. Thauer, G. L. Waldrop, "Frontiers, Opportunities, and Challenges in Biochemical and Chemical Catalysis of CO2 Fixation" Chem. Rev. 2013, 113, 6621-6658. 10.1021/cr300463y open access preprint

205. D. E. Prokopchuk, A. Collado, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Structural properties of trans hydrido–hydroxo M(H)(OH)(NH2CMe2CMe2NH2)(PPh3)2 (M = Ru, Os) complexes and their proton exchange behaviour with water in solution" Dalton Trans. 2013, 10.1039/C3DT50452B Open access preprint

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204. J. F. Sonnenberg, D. Pichugin, N. Coombs, R. H. Morris, "Oxidative Kinetic Resolution of Aromatic Alcohols Using Iron Nanoparticles" Top. Catal. 2013, 56, 1199-1207. 10.1007/s11244-013-0086-2 Open access preprint

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203. J. F. Sonnenberg, R. H. Morris, "Evidence for Iron Nanoparticles Catalyzing the Rapid Dehydrogenation of Ammonia-Borane" ACS Catal. 2013, 3, 1092-1102. 10.1021/cs400115p Open access preprint

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202. K. Park, P. O. Lagaditis, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Synthesis of New Late Transition Metal P,P-, P,N-, and P,O- Complexes Using Phosphonium Dimers as Convenient Ligand Precursors" Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 5448-5456. 10.1021/ic4003753 Open access preprint

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201. W. W. N. O, R. H. Morris, "Ester Hydrogenation Catalyzed by a Ruthenium(II) Complex Bearing an N-Heterocyclic Carbene Tethered with an "NH2" Group and a DFT Study of the Proposed Bifunctional Mechanism" ACS Catal. 2013, 3, 32-40. 10.1021/cs300619q Open access preprint

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2012 (top)

200. D. E. Prokopchuk, R. H. Morris, "Inner-Sphere Activation, Outer-Sphere Catalysis: Theoretical Study on the Mechanism of Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones Using Iron(II) PNNP Eneamido Complexes" Organometallics 2012, 31, 7375-7385. 10.1021/om300572v

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199. F. Hasanayn, R. H. Morris, "Symmetry Aspects of H2 Splitting by Five-Coordinate d6 Ruthenium Amides, and Calculations on Acetophenone Hydrogenation, Ruthenium Alkoxide Formation, and Subsequent Hydrogenolysis in a Model trans-Ru(H)2(diamine)(diphosphine) System" Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 10808-10818. 10.1021/ic301233j

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198. P. E. Sues, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Flexible Syntheses of Tripodal Phosphine Ligands 1,1,2-Tris(diarylphosphino)ethane and Their Ruthenium η5-C5Me5 Complexes" Organometallics 2012, 31, 6589-6594. 10.1021/om3005959

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197. A. A. Mikhailine, M. I. Maishan, R. H. Morris, "Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketimines Using Well-Defined Iron(II)-Based Precatalysts Containing a PNNP Ligand" Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 4638-4641. 10.1021/ol302079q

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196. P. E. Sues, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Synthesis, Characterization, and Activity of Yttrium(III) Nitrate Complexes Bearing Tripodal Phosphine Oxide and Mixed Phosphine–Phosphine Oxide Ligands" Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 9322-9332. 10.1021/ic3010147

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195. A. A. Mikhailine, M. I. Maishan, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "The Mechanism of Efficient Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Acetophenone Using an Iron(II) Complex Containing an (S,S)-Ph2PCH2CH=NCHPhCHPhN=CHCH2PPh2 Ligand: Partial Ligand Reduction Is the Key" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 12266-12280. 10.1021/ja304814s

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194. H. Ohara, W. W. N. O, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Effect of chelating ring size in catalytic ketone hydrogenation: facile synthesis of ruthenium(II) precatalysts containing an N-heterocyclic carbene with a primary amine donor for ketone hydrogenation and a DFT study of mechanisms" Dalton Trans. 2012, 41, 8797-8808. 10.1039/C2DT30994G

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193. D. E. Prokopchuk, J. F. Sonnenberg, N. Meyer, M. Zimmer-De Iuliis, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Spectroscopic and DFT Study of Ferraaziridine Complexes Formed in the Transfer Hydrogenation of Acetophenone Catalyzed Using trans-[Fe(CO)(NCMe)(PPh2C6H4CH=NCH2-)2-κ4P,N,N,P](BF4)2" Organometallics 2012, 31, 3056-3064. 10.1021/om201170f

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192. J. F. Sonnenberg, N Coombs, P. A. Dube, R. H. Morris, "Iron Nanoparticles Catalyzing the Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 5893-5899. 10.1021/ja211658t

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191. W. W. N. O, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Bifunctional Mechanism with Unconventional Intermediates for the Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by an Iridium(III) Complex Containing an N-Heterocyclic Carbene with a Primary Amine Donor" Organometallics 2012, 31, 2152-2165. 10.1021/om300071v

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190. W. W. N. O, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Factors Favoring Efficient Bifunctional Catalysis. Study of a Ruthenium(II) Hydrogenation Catalyst Containing an N-Heterocyclic Carbene with a Primary Amine Donor" Organometallics 2012, 21, 2137-2151. 10.1021/om300108p

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2011 (top)

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187. P. E. Sues, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Stereoelectronic Factors in Iron Catalysis: Synthesis and Characterization of Aryl-Substituted Iron(II) Carbonyl P-N-N-P Complexes and Their Use in the Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones" Organometallics 2011, 30, 4418-4431. 10.1021/om2005172

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186. D. E. Prokopchuk, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "From Amine to Ruthenaziridine to Azaallyl: Unusual Transformation of Di-(2-pyridylmethyl)amine on Ruthenium" Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 10603-10608. 10.1039/C1DT10626K

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185. P. O. Lagaditis, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Low-valent Ene-amido Iron Complexes for the Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Acetophenone Without Base" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 9662-9665. 10.1021/ja202375y

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184. W. W. N. O., A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Mechanistic Investigation of the Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by a Ruthenium(II) Complex Featuring an N-Heterocyclic Carbene with a Tethered Primary Amine Donor: Evidence for an Inner Sphere Mechanism" Organometallics 2011, 30, 1236-1252. 10.1021/om101152m

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2010 (top)

183. A. A. Mikhailine, R. H. Morris, "Effect of the Structure of the Diamine Backbone of P-N-N-P ligands in Iron(II) Complexes on Catalytic Activity in the Transfer Hydrogenation of Acetophenone" Inorg. Chem. 2010, 49, 11039-11044. 10.1021/ic101548j

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182. W. W. N. O, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "(η5-Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)(η6-toluene)ruthenium(II) hexafluoridophosphate" Acta Cryst. 2010, E66, m1264. 10.1107/S1600536810036299

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181. P. O. Lagaditis, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Iron Complexes for the Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation of Acetophenone: Steric and Electronic Effects Imposed by Alkyl Substituents at Phosphorus" Inorg. Chem. 2010, 49, 10057-10066. 10.1021/ic101366z

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180. W. W. N. O, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "The Hydrogenation of Molecules with Polar Bonds Catalyzed by a Ruthenium(II) Complex Bearing a Chelating N-heterocyclic Carbene with a Primary Amine Donor" Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 8240-8242. 10.1039/C0CC02664F

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179. A. A. Mikhailine, P. O. Lagaditis, P. E. Sues, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "New cyclic phosphonium salts derived from the reaction of phosphine-aldehydes with acid" J. Organomet. Chem. 2010, 695, 1824-1830. 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2010.04.016

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178. W. W. N. O, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Palladium(II) and Platinum(II) Complexes Featuring a Nitrile-Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand" Organometallics 2010, 29, 570-581. 10.1021/om9008372

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177. P. O. Lagaditis, A. A. Mikhailine, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Template Synthesis of Iron(II) Complexes Containing Tridentate P-N-S, P-N-P, P-N-N, and Tetradentate P-N-N-P Ligands" Inorg. Chem. 2010, 49, 1094-1102. 10.1021/ic901945c

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2009 (top)

175. W. W. N. O, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Transmetalation of a Primary Amino-Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand from an Axially Chiral Square-Planar Nickel(II) Complex to a Ruthenium(II) Precatalyst for the Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones" Organometallics 2009, 28, 6755-6761. 10.1021/om9007746

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174. M. Zimmer-De Iuliis, R. H. Morris, "Kinetic Hydrogen/Deuterium Effects in the Direct Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by a Well-Defined Ruthenium Diphosphine Diamine Complex" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 11263-11269. 10.1021/ja9043104

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173. R. H. Morris, "Asymmetric hydrogenation, transfer hydrogenation and hydrosilylation of ketones catalyzed by iron complexes." Chem. Soc. Rev. 2009, 8, 2282-2291. 10.1039/b806837m

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171. N. Meyer, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Iron(II) Complexes for the Efficient Catalytic Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones" Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 5605-5610. 10.1002/chem.200802458

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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. 10.1021/om8009377

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169. C. Sui-Seng, F. N. Haque, A. Hadzovic, A.-M. Pütz, V. Reuss, N. Meyer, A. J. Lough, M. Zimmer-De Iulii, R. H. Morris, "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. 10.1021/ic801518h

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168. 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. 10.1021/ja809493h

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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. 10.1139/V08-078

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2008 (top)

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" Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 6587-6589. 10.1021/ic800884c

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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 β-Diiminate Complex by a Base-induced Isomerization" Inorg. Chim. Acta 2008, 361, 3149-3158. (invited for special issue dedicated to R. Angelici) 10.1016/j.ica.2007.12.003

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162. R. H. Morris, "Dihydrogen, dihydride and in-between: NMR and Structural Properties of Iron Group Complexes" Coord. Chem. Rev. 2008, 252, 2381-2394. 10.1016/j.ccr.2008.01.010

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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)-binap)(PPh3)" Organometallics 2008, 27, 503-508. 10.1021/om700360r

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160. C. Sui-Seng, F. Freutel, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Highly Efficient Catalyst Systems Using Iron Complexes with a Tetradentate PNNP Ligand for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Polar Bonds" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 940-943. 10.1002/anie.200705115

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2007 (top)

159. T. Li, I. Bergner, F. N. Haque, M. Zimmer-De Iuliis, D. Song, R. H. Morris, "The hydrogenation of benzonitrile to benzylamine catalyzed by ruthenium hydride complexes with P-NH-NH-P ligands" Organometallics 2007, 26, 5940-5949. 10.1021/om700783e

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158. A. Hadzovic, C. M. MacLaughlin, D. Song, R. H. Morris, "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. 10.1021/om700849w

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157. C. Sui-seng, A. Hadzovic, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Novel Hydrido-Ruthenium(II) Complexes of Histidine Derivatives and Their Application in the Hydrogenation of Ketones" Dalton Trans. 2007, 2536-2541. 10.1039/b702803b (featured on cover)

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156. J. G. Hinman, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "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. 10.1021/ic062037b (featured on cover)

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155. T. Li, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "An Acidity Scale of Tetrafluoroborate Salts of Phosphonium and Iron Hydride Compounds in Dichloromethane-d2" Chem. Eur. J. 2007, 13, 3796-3803. 10.1002/chem.200601484

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2006 (top)

154. S. E. Clapham, R. Guo, M. Zimmer-De Iuliis, N. Rasool, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "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, (R,R)-1,2-Diaminocyclohexane)" Organometallics 2006, 25, 5477-5486. 10.1021/om060661q

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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. 10.1016/j.ica.2005.11.018

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152.T. Li, A. J. Lough, C. Zuccaccia, A. Macchioni, R. H. Morris, "An Acidity Scale of Phosphorus-Containing Compounds Including Phosphonium Salts and Ruthenium Dihydrogen Complexes in Dichloromethane." Can. J. Chem. 2006, 84, 164-175 (special issue in honour of Arthur Carty). 10.1139/V05-236

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2005 (top)

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148. R. Guo, C. Elpelt, X. Chen, D. Song, R. H. Morris, "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. 10.1039/b502123e

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146. R. Guo, C. Elpelt, X. Chen, D. Song, R. H. Morris, "Applications of Ruthenium Hydride Borohydride Complexes Containing Phosphinite and Diamine Ligands to Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions" Org. Lett. 2005, 1757-1759. 10.1021/ol050336j

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145. K. Abdur-Rashid, R. Abbel, A. Hadzovic, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Chemistry of Ruthenium(II) Monohydride and Dihydride Complexes Containing Pyridyl Donor Ligands" Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 2483-2492. 10.1021/ic0489387

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144. S. E. Clapham, R. H. Morris, "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. 10.1021/om048998k

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143. R. Guo, R. H. Morris, D. Song, "Enantioselective Tandem Michael Addition/H2-Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Ruthenium Hydride Borohydride Complexes Containing Beta-aminophosphine Ligands" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 516-517. 10.1021/ja043782v

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142. K. Abdur-Rashid, R. Guo, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, D. Song, "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. 10.1002/adsc.200404274

141. R. Abbel, K. Abdur-Rashid, A. Hadzovic, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, J. Harvey, "A Succession of Dihydride Isomers of Ruthenium. Which One is the Ketone Hydrogenation Catalyst? " J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 1870-1882. 10.1021/ja039396f

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2004 (top)

139. T. Li, R. Churlaud, A. J. Lough, K. Abdur-Rashid, R. H. Morris, "Dihydridoamine and Hydridoamido Complexes of Ruthenium(II) With a Tetradentate P-N-N-P Donor Ligand" Organometallics 2004, 23, 6239-6247. 10.1021/om049565k

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138. R. Guo, A.J. Lough, R.H. Morris, D. Song, "Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by Ruthenium Hydride Complexes of a Beta-aminophosphine Ligand Derived from Norephedrine" Organometallics 2004, 23, 5524-5529. 10.1021/om049460h

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137. D. Song, R. H. Morris, "Cyclometallated Amine and Amido Ligands in Pt(II) and Pd(II) Complexes and A Novel Potassium Alkoxide Aggregate" Organometallics 2004, 23, 4406-4413. 10.1021/om0496232

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136. S. Clapham, A. Hadzovic, R. H. Morris, "Mechanisms of the H2-Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation of Polar Bonds Catalyzed by Ruthenium Hydride Complexes" Coord. Chem. Rev. 2004, 248, 2201�237 (invited review). 10.1016/j.ccr.2004.04.007

135. K. Abdur-Rashid, T. Fedorkiw, A.J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Coordinatively Unsaturated Hydridoruthenium(II) Complexes of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes" Organometallics 2004, 23, 86-94. 10.1021/om034178g

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2003-1998 (top)

134. V. Rautenstrauch, X. Hoang-Cong, R. Churlaud, K. Abdur-Rashid, R. H. Morris, "Hydrogenation versus Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones: Two Established Ruthenium Systems Catalyze Both" Chem. Eur. J. 2003, 9, 4954-4967. 10.1002/chem.200304884

133. K. Abdur-Rashid, S.E. Clapham, A. Hadzovic, J.N. Harvey, A.J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Mechanism of the Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by trans-Dihydrido(diamine)ruthenium(II) Complexes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 15104-15118. 10.1021/ja016817p

130. Shaun E. Landau, Kai E. Groh, Alan J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "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. 10.1021/ic0255149

129. K. Abdur-Rashid, M. Faatz, A.J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "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. 10.1021/ja015902u

128. J.G. Hinman, K. Abdur-Rashid, A.J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "[{ReH2(PMePh2)2}2(μ-H)3]-: The first member of a new class of anionic polyhydride dimers [Re2H7L4]-" Inorg. Chem. 2001, 40, 2480-2481. 10.1021/ic010041b

126. K. Abdur-Rashid, A.J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "RuHCl(diphosphine)(diamine): Catalyst Precursors for the Stereoselective Hydrogenation of Ketones and Imines" Organometallics 2001, 20, 1047-1049. 10.1021/om001054k

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124. K. Abdur-Rashid, A.J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Intra- and Inter- Molecular Ion-Pair-Assisted Protonic-Hydridic Bonding in Polyhydridobis(phosphine)rhenates" Can. J. Chem. 2001, 79, 964-976 (Special Dedicated to Brian James). 10.1139/cjc-79-5-6-964

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122. E. Rocchini, P. Rigo, A. Mezzetti, T. Stephan, R.H. Morris, A.J. Lough, C.E. Forde, T.P. Fong, S. D. Drouin, "Synthesis and Properties of Iron-group Hydrido-Cyano Complexes trans-[MH(CN)(L)2], M = Fe, Ru, Os, L = depe, dppm, dppe, dppp, dtpe and Their Hydrogen-, Trifluoroboron- and Triphenylboron-isocyanide Derivatives of the type trans-[MH(CNH)(L)2]OTf, trans-[MH(CNBX3)(L)2], X = F or Ph and trans-[M(H2)(CNBF3)(dppp)2]BF4" J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 2000, 3591-3602. 10.1039/B005687L

121.K. Abdur-Rashid, T.P. Fong, B. Greaves, D.G. Gusev, J. G. Hinman, S.E. Landau, R. H. Morris, "An Acidity Scale for Phosphorus-containing Compounds Including Metal Hydrides and Dihydrogen Complexes in THF: Toward the Unification of Acidity scales " J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 9155-9171. 10.1021/ja994428d

120. K. Abdur-Rashid, A.J. Lough, 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. 10.1021/om000231e

119. S.H. Park, A.J. Lough, G.P.A. Yap, R. H. Morris, "The Effect of Ancillary Ligands on Intramolecular Proton---hydride (NH...HIr) Bonding in Complexes of Iridium(III)" J. Organomet. Chem. 2000, 609, 110-122. 10.1016/S0022-328X(00)00238-2

118. K. Abdur-Rashid, D. Gusev, A.J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Synthesis and Characterization of Ru(H2)2(H)2(PiPr3)2. Evidence for a Bis-dihydrogen Structure and Related Chemistry" Organometallics 2000, 19, 2655-2657. 10.1021/om000231e

117. G. Facey, D. Gusev, S. Macholl, R.H. Morris, G. Buntkowsky, "2H MAS NMR of strongly dipolar coupled deuterium pairs in transition metal dihydrides: Extracting dipolar coupling and quadrupolar tensor orientations from the line shape of spinning side bands" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2000, 2, 935-941. 10.1039/a908942j

116. K. Abdur-Rashid, D. Gusev, A.J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Intermolecular Proton-Hydride Bonding in Ion Pairs: Synthesis and Structural Properties of [K(Q)][MH5(PiPr3)2] (M = Os, Ru; Q = 18-crown-6, 1-aza-18-crown-6, 1,10-diaza-18-crown-6)" Organometallics 2000, 19, 834-843. 10.1021/om9908837

115. T.P. Fong, C.E. Forde, A.J. Lough, R.H. Morris, P. Rigo, E. Rocchini, 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. 10.1039/a906717e

114. S.E. Landau, R.H. Morris, A.J. Lough , "Acidic dicationic iron(II) dihydrogen complexes and compounds related by H2 substitution" Inorg. Chem. 1999, 38, 6060-6068. 10.1021/ic990876a

113. G. Buntkowsky, F. Wehrmann, T.P. Fong, R. H. Morris, H.-H. Limbach, "Coherent and Incoherent Deuterium Dynamics in a Solid Non-classical RuD2 Complex studied by 2H Solid State NMR Spectroscopy: Evidence for D2 Tunneling" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 1999, 1, 4033-4041. 10.1039/a904155i

112. G.A. Facey, T.P. Fong, D.G. Gusev, P.M. MacDonald, R.H. Morris, M. Schlaf, W. Xu , "Probing the Motion of the η2-Dideuterium Ligand by Solution and Solid State 2H NMR Spectroscopy" Can. J. Chem. 1999, 77, 1899-1910. 10.1139/cjc-77-11-1899

111. A. C. Ontko, J. F. Houlis, D. M. Roddick, T. P. Fong, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "Protonation and H2 Heterolysis Studies of Electrophilic (η5-C5R5)Ru(dfepe)(X) (R = H, Me; X = H or OTf) Complexes" Organometallics 1998, 17, 5467-5476. 10.1021/om980711u

110. K. Abdur-Rashid, D. G. Gusev, S. E. Landau, A. J. Lough, 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. 10.1021/ja9822106

109. D. G. Gusev, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, "New Polyhydride Anions and Proton-Hydride Hydrogen Bonding in Their Ion Pairs" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 128, 13138-13147. 10.1021/ja9817693

108. T. P. Fong, A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, A. Mezzetti, E. Rocchini, P. Rigo, "Turning dihydrogen gas into a strong acid. Formation and reactions of the very acidic ruthenium dihydrogen complexes trans-[Ru(H2)(CNH)(PPh2(CH2)nPPh2)2](O3SCF3)2, n=2, 3" J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 1998, 2111. 10.1039/a803256d

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106. A. J. Lough, R. H. Morris, L. Ricciuto and T. Schleis, "Solution and Crystal Structure of the Dihydrogen Complex [Ru(H2)H(PMe2Ph)4]PF6, an Active Alkyne Hydrogenation Catalyst" Inorg. Chim. Acta 1998, 270, 238-246. 10.1016/S0020-1693(97)05849-0

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276. R. H. Morris, "Focusing on transition metal hydride complexes" Can. J. Chem. 2021, 99, v-vii. 10.1139/cjc-2020-0507

209. A. A. Mikhailine, F. Freutel, C. Sui-Seng, N. Meyer, R. H. Morris, P. O. Lagaditis, "Iron(II) catalysts containing diimino-diphosphine tetradentate ligands and their synthesis" United States Patent 2014, US 8,716,507 B2.

188. A. A. Mikhailine, R. H. Morris, "Iron Catalysis" in McGraw-Hill 2011 Yearbook of Science and Technology McGraw-Hill Book Co., 2011, 130-133. ISBN: 9780071763714

172. R. H. Morris, "The Guided Tours of Metalloproteins (now with Jmol or Chime)�“World Index of BioMolecular Visualization Resources� 2009, http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/coursenotes/GTM/main.htm

164. R. H. Morris, "IDW 2007 in Review" Canadian Chemical News 2008, 60(2), 6.

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, 2006, 45-70. ISBN: 978-3-527-31161-3

149. R. H. Morris "Hydrogenases and Model Complexes" In Concepts and Models in Bioinorganic Chemistry B. Kraatz and N. Metzler-Nolte, Ed.; Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2006, 329-360. ISBN: 978-3-527-31305-1

151. R. H. Morris, Book Review of "Mechanisms in Homogeneous Catalysis: A Spectroscopic Approach" Edited by Brian Heaton (University of Liverpool). J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 17963-17964. 10.1021/ja0597956

147. R. H. Morris, "Discovery of the First Dinitrogen Complex" Canadian Chemical News 2005, 57, 44.

125. R. H. Morris, "Non-classical hydrogen bonding along the pathway to the heterolytic splitting of dihydrogen" in Recent Advances in Hydride Chemistry , M. Perruzini and R. Poli, Ed.; Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2001, 1-38. 10.1016/S0022-328X(03)00037-8

123. C. E. Forde, R. H. Morris, "Transition metal complexes as models of the active sites of hydrogenases" in Electron Transfer in Chemistry Vol. 2, V. Balzano, Ed.; Wiley VCH, Weinheim, 2001, 905-926. 10.1007/s10008-003-0452-2

107. R. H. Morris, "The Chemistry of the Dihydrogen Ligand in Transition Metal Compounds With Sulfur-donor Ligands" in Transition Metal Sulfides in Chemistry and Catalysis , NATO Advanced Research Workshop Series, T. Weber et al., Eds.; Kluwer Press, 1998, 57-87.