Chemistry Publications
Research in the Department of Chemistry covers a broad spectrum of chemical specialties but generally falls within three research themes: Materials and Biomaterials; Computational Sciences and Environmental Science and Ecology.
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Submissions from 2017
Cytochrome c as a Peroxidase: Activation of the Precatalytic Native State by H, Victor Yin, Gary S Shaw, and Lars Konermann
Submissions from 2016
Boron Difluoride Formazanate Copolymers with 9,9-Di-n-hexylfluorene Prepared by Copper-Catalyzed Alkyne-Azide Cycloaddition Chemistry, Stephanie M. Barbon and Joe Gilroy
Selective Oxygen Atom Insertion into an Aryl-Palladium Bond, Ava Behnia, Paul D. Boyle, Johanna M. Blacquiere, and Richard J. Puddephatt
Pincer-plus-one ligands in self-assembly with palladium(ii): a molecular square and a molecular tetrahedron, Ava Behnia, Paul D. Boyle, Mahmood A. Fard, Johanna M. Blacquiere, and Richard J. Puddephatt
Chemical state determination of molecular gallium compounds using XPS, Jeremy L. Bourque, Mark C. Biesinger, and Kim M. Baines
Cascade Reaction of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes: Mechanistic Studies on Cycloadditions with Nitrosoarenes and cis-Diazenes., Tristan Chidley, Naresh Vemula, Cheryl A Carson, Michael A Kerr, and Brian L Pagenkopf
Exact expressions for the Kohn–Sham exchange-correlation potential in terms of wave-function-based quantities, Rogelio Cuevas-Saavedra and Viktor N. Staroverov
Synthesis, properties, and antibacterial activity of polyphosphonium semi-interpenetrating networks, Tyler John Cuthbert, Tristan Harrison, Paul J. Ragogna, and Elizabeth Gillies
End-Capping Strategies for Triggering End-to-End Depolymerization of Polyglyoxylates, Bo Fan, John Trant, and Elizabeth Gillies
Photocontrolled Degradation of Stimuli-Responsive Poly(ethyl glyoxylate): Differentiating Features and Traceless Ambient Depolymerization, Bo Fan, John Trant, Rebecca Yardley, Andrew Pickering, Francois Lagugne-Labarthet, and Elizabeth Gillies
Post-polymerization functionalization of poly (ethylene oxide)–poly (β-6-heptenolactone) diblock copolymers to tune properties and self-assembly, Elizabeth Gillies, Brooke M. Raycraft, and Jarret MacDonald
Unusual C7- versus Normal 5’-O-Dimethoxytritylation of 6-Arylpyrrolocytidine Analogs, Robert Hudson
Aggregation-Induced Emission Enhancement in Boron Difluoride Complexes of 3-Cyanoformazanates, Ryan R. Maar and Joe Gilroy
Cycloaddition of carbonyl compounds and alkynes to (di)silenes and (di)germenes: Reactivity and mechanism, Kaarina K. Milnes, Laura C. Pavelka, and Kim M. Baines
Synthesis, Characterization, and Thin-Film Properties of 6-Oxoverdazyl Polymers Prepared by Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization, Joseph A. Paquette, Sabastine Ezugwu, Vishal Yadav, Giovanni Fanchini, and Joe Gilroy
Synthesis, Characterization, and Pre-Ceramic Properties of π-Conjugated Polymers Based on Ni(II) Complexes of Goedken’s Macrocycle, Joseph A. Paquette and Joe Gilroy
Catalytic cyclization and competitive deactivation with Ru(PR2NR′2) complexes, J. M. Stubbs, J. P.J. Bow, R. J. Hazlehurst, and J. M. Blacquiere
Controlled Positioning of Analytes and Cells on a Plasmonic Platform for Glycan Sensing Using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Mohammadali Tabatabaei, Gregory Q Wallace, Fabiana A Caetano, Elizabeth R Gillies, Stephen S G Ferguson, and François Lagugné-Labarthet
Addition of Isocyanides to Tetramesityldigermene: A Comparison of the Reactivity between Surface and Molecular Digermenes, Nada Y. Tashkandi, Emily E. Cook, Jeremy L. Bourque, and Kim M. Baines
Addition of alkynes to digermynes: Experimental insight into the reaction pathway, Nada Y. Tashkandi, Laura C. Pavelka, Christine A. Caputo, Paul D. Boyle, Philip P. Power, and Kim M. Baines
Synthesis, self-assembly, and immunological activity of α-galactose-functionalized dendron–lipid amphiphiles, John Trant, Namrata Jain, D. M. Mazzuca, J Trevor McIntosh, Bo Fan, S M Mansour Haeryfar, Sebastien Lecommandoux, and Elizabeth Gillies
Synthesis and Reactivity of Alkoxy-activated Cyclobutane-1,1- dicarboxylates, Naresh Vemula and Brian L Pagenkopf
Poly(ester amide)s with pendant azobenzenes: Multi-responsive self-immolative moieties for modulating polymer assemblies, Andrew D. Wong, Alex Prinzen, and Elizabeth Gillies
Submissions from 2015
Preface to the Special Issue dedicated to Chemical Research at Western, Kim M. Baines and Yining Huang
An Azide-Functionalized Nitronyl Nitroxide Radical: Synthesis, Characterization and Staudinger-Bertozzi Ligation Reactivity, Stephanie M. Barbon, Pierangelo Gobbo, Wilson Luo, Jacquelyn T. Price, Mark C. Biesenger, Mark S. Workentin, and Joe Gilroy