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Publications 2006-2010

  1. Cheryl J. Bourgeois, Shaun A. Garratt, Russell P. Hughes,
Roman B. Larichev, Jeremy M. Smith, Antony J. Ward,
Stefan Willemsen, Donghui Zhang, Antonio G. DiPasquale,
Lev N. Zakharov, and Arnold L. Rheingold,
Synthesis and Structural Characterization of
(Perfluoroalkyl)fluoroiridium(III) and
(Perfluoroalkyl)methyliridium(III) Compounds,
Organometallics 2006, 25, 3474-3480.
  1. Cheryl J. Bourgeois, Russell P. Hughes, Jian Yuan,
Antonio G. DiPasquale, and Arnold L. Rheingold,
α- and β-Fluorine Elimination Reactions Induced by Reduction of
Iridium-Fluoroalkyl Complexes. Selective Formation of
Fluoroalkylidene and Hydrofluoroalkene Ligands,
Organometallics 2006, 25, 2908-2910.
  1. Hui Huang, Russell P. Hughes, Clark R. Landis,
and Arnold L. Rheingold,
The Simplest Binary Fluorocarbon as a Ligand.
Synthetic, Spectroscopic, Crystallographic, and
Computational Studies of a
Molybdenum Complex of Terminally Ligated
Carbon Monofluoride (Fluoromethylidyne),
J.Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 7454-7455.
  1. Russell P. Hughes, Roman B. Larichev, Lev. N. Zakharov,
and Arnold L. Rheingold
Carbon-Fluorine Bond Activation Coupled with Alkynyl Migration
to give Fluorinated Allenyl Complexes of Iridium.
Organometallics, 2006, 25, 3943-3947.
  1. Cheryl J. Bourgeois, Hui Huang, Roman B. Larichev,
Lev N. Zakharov, Arnold L. Rheingold, and Russell P. Hughes
Variable Temperature NMR Determination of the
Barriers to Rotation About the Ir-C σ-Bond
in a Series of Primary Perfluoroalkyl Iridium Complexes
[IrCp*{(CF2)nCF3}(PMe3)2]+ X-
[n = 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11][X = I, OTf]}.
Organometallics, 2007, 26, 264-271.
  1. Jian Yuan, Russell P. Hughes, and Arnold L. Rheingold,
The First Example of a Bis(trifluoromethyl)carbene
Transition Metal Complex, and its Reduction to a
Perfluoroallene Complex.
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2007, 30, 4723-4725.
  1. Lyudmila Leontyeva, Russell P. Hughes, and Arnold L. Rheingold,
An Unusual Migratory Insertion of CO into a
Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl-Platinum Bond.
Organometallics, 2007,26, 5735-5736.
  1. Hui Huang, Russell P. Hughes, and Arnold L. Rheingold
Synthesis and Structural Characterization of a
Coordinatively Unsaturated Ruthenium Complex,
Cp*Ru(Ph2nacnac), and its CO Adduct,
Polyhedron, 2008, 27, 734-738.
  1. Hui Huang, N. Raluca Hurubeanu, Cheryl J. Bourgeois,
Sue-Mei Cheah, Jian Yuan, Arnold L. Rheingold,
and Russell P. Hughes
Octahedral Perfluoroalkyl Complexes of Ir(III)
Formed by Oxidative Addition of Perfluoroalkyl Iodides to
Ir(acac)(CO)2,
Can. J. Chem., 2009, 87, 151-160.
  1. Andrew J. Roering, Annalese F. Maddox, L. Taylor Elrod,
Stephanie M. Chan, Michael B. Ghebreab, Kyle L. Donovan,
Jillian J. Davidson, Russell P. Hughes, Tamila Shalumova,
Samantha N. MacMillan, Joseph M. Tanski, and Rory Waterman
General Preparation of (N3N)ZrX (N3N = N(CH2CH2NSiMe3)33–)
Complexes from a Hydride Surrogate
Organometallics, 2009, 28, 573-581.
  1. Hui Huang, Arnold L. Rheingold, and Russell P. Hughes
Serendipitous Discovery of a Simple Compound with an
Unsupported Ir-Ir Bond
Organometallics, 2009¸ 28, 1575-1578
  1. Mitchell A. Pet, Matthew F. Cain, Russell P. Hughes,
David S. Glueck, James A. Golen, and Arnold L. Rheingold
Synthesis and Structure of Ferrocenylmethylphosphines,
Their Borane Adducts, and Some Related Derivatives
J. Organomet. Chem., 2009, 694, 2279-2289.
  1. Jian Yuan, Russell P. Hughes and Arnold L. Rheingold
A Monomeric Perfluoroalkyl Iridium(III) Amido Complex
with an Ir═N Double Bond and
Its Reactions To Activate sp3 Carbon−Hydrogen Bonds
at Room Temperature
Organometallics, 2009¸ 28, 4646-4648
  1. Russell P. Hughes
Conversion of Carbon–Fluorine Bonds
α to Transition Metal Centers
to Carbon–Hydrogen, Carbon–Carbon,
and Carbon–Heteroatom Bonds
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2009, 31, 4591-4606.
  1. Jian Yuan, Russell P. Hughes, James A. Golen,
and Arnold L. Rheingold
Synthesis, Structural and Computational Studies of a
Conformationally Locked (η1-Perfluoroalkylidene)(η2-Alkene)
Transition Metal Complex; Ir(Cp*)(CFCF3)(C2H4).
Organometallics, 2010, 29, 1942–1947.
  1. Hui Huang, Russell P. Hughes, and Arnold L. Rheingold
Synthesis and Structural Characterization of New
Perfluoroacyl and Perfluoroalkyl
Group 6 Transition Metal Compounds
Organometallics, 2010, 29, 1948–1957.
  1. Elizabeth M. Lane, Timothy W. Chapp, Russell P. Hughes,
David S. Glueck, Brett Feland, Guy Bernard,
Roderick E. Wasylishen, and Arnold L. Rheingold
Synthesis of Gold Phosphido Complexes Derived from
Bis(secondary) Phosphines.
Structure of Tetrameric [Au(MesP(CH2)3PMes)Au]4
Inorg. Chem., 2010, 49, 3950–3957.
  1. Jian Yuan, Russell P. Hughes, and Arnold L. Rheingold
Synthesis and Crystallographic Characterization of Dimeric
Perfluoroalkyl Iridium Complexes: [Cp*Ir(X)(RF)]2 (X= I, RF= CF3,
CF2CF3, CF2CF2CF3, CF(CF3)2, CF(CF3)(CF2CF3); X= Cl and Br,
RF= CF2CF3), and a New Perfluoroethylidene Complex
Cp*Ir(PPh3)(CFCF3)
Inorg. Chim. Acta,  2010,  364, 96-101.
  1. Russell P. Hughes
Fluorine as a Ligand Substituent in Organometallic Chemistry:
A Second Chance and a Second Research Career
J.Fluorine Chem., 2010, 131, 1059-1070.
  1. Matthew F. Cain, Russell P. Hughes, David S. Glueck,
James A. Golen, Curtis E. Moore, and Arnold L. Rheingold
Synthesis and Structure of Intermediates in Copper-Catalyzed
Alkylation of Diphenylphosphine
Inorg. Chem., 2010, 49, 7650-7662.
  1. Hui Huang, Arnold L. Rheingold, and Russell P. Hughes
Synthesis and X-Ray Structure of a Diamagnetic Oxo-bridged
Trifluoromethyl-Chromium(V) Complex: Structural and Computational Comparisons Between CF3 and CH3 Ligands in two Different Oxidation States of Chromium
Organometallics, 2010, 29, 3672-3675.