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Book Chapters:

3. Charles L. B. Macdonald, Bobby D. Ellis, Gregor Reeske, Alan H. Cowley "N-Heterocyclic Phosphenium Salts" in Experiments in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, D. Kennepohl, H. W. Roesky, eds., Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, 2009. Pages 168-172. *Invited*

2. Bobby D. Ellis, Charles L. B. Macdonald “Cationic Low Oxidation State Phosphorus and Arsenic Compounds” in Modern Aspects of Main Group Chemistry, American Chemical Society Symposium Series, Volume 917, R. A. Kemp, M. Lattman, eds., American Chemical Society Press: Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 2006. Pages 108-122.  *Invited*

1. Charles L. B. Macdonald, Bobby D. Ellis. “Low Oxidation State Main Group Chemistry” in The Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd edition, R. B. King, editor, John Wiley & Sons.: Chichester, U.K., 2005.  *Invited*  Online version: Charles L. B. Macdonald, Bobby D. Ellis. , "Low Oxidation State Main Group" in Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, R. H. Crabtree, editor, John Wiley: Chichester, U.K., 2006. DOI: 10.1002/0470862106.ia297
 

Refereed Publications:

65. Bandyopadhyay, R.; Cooper, B. F. T.; Rossini, A. J.; Schurko, R. W.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Crown ether complexes of tin(II) trifluoromethanesulfonate, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2010, 695, 1012-1018. (IRIS 12 conference special issue)

64. Dube, J. W.; Farrar, G. J.; Norton, E. L.; Szekely, K. L. S.; Cooper, B. F. T.; Macdonald, C. L. B. A Convenient Method for the Preparation of N-Heterocyclic Bromophosphines: Excellent Precursors to the Corresponding N-Heterocyclic Phosphenium Salts, Organometallics, 2009, 28, 4377-4384.

63. Rupar, P. A.; Bandyopadhyay, R.; Cooper, B. F. T.; Stinchcombe, M. R.; Ragogna, P. J.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Baines, K. M. Cationic Crown Ether Complexes of Germanium(II), Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2009, 48, 5155-5158. *Very Important Paper*

62. Dhudshia, B.; Cooper, B. F. T.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Thadani, A. N. Asymmetric total synthesis of securinine, Chemical Communications, 2009, 463-465.

61. Cooper, B. F. T.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Synthesis and structure of an indium(I) "crown sandwich", Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2008, 693, 1707-1711. *Invited for the special F.A. Cotton memorial issue*

60. Macdonald, C. L. B.; Gorden, J. D.; Voigt, A.; Filipponi, S.; Cowley, A. H. Group 13 Decamethylmetallocenium Cations, Dalton Transactions, 2008, 1161-1176.

59. Norton, E. L.; Szekely, K. L. S.; Dube, J. W.; Bomben, P. G.; Macdonald, C. L. B. A Convenient Preparative Method for Cyclic Triphosphenium Bromide and Chloride Salts, Inorganic Chemistry, 2008, 47, 1196-1203.

58. Widdifield, C. M.; Tang, J. A.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Schurko, R. W. Investigation of Structure and Dynamics in the Sodium Metallocenes CpNa and CpNa•THF via Solid-State NMR, X-ray Diffraction and Computational Modelling, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 2007, 45, S116-S128.

57. Tang, J. A.; Ellis, B. D.; Warren, T. H.; Hanna, J. V.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Schurko, R. W. Solid-state ⁶³Cu and ⁶⁵Cu NMR Spectroscopy of Inorganic and Organometallic Copper(I) Complexes, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2007, 129, 13049-13065.

56. Cooper, B. F. T.; Andrews, C. G.; Macdonald, C. L. B. The insertion reactions of "crowned" indium(I) trifluoromethanesulfonate into carbon-chlorine bonds, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2007, 692, 2843-2848. (IRIS-XI special issue) *I designed the cover art for this special issue*

55. Ellis, B. D.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Stable Compounds Containing Heavier Group 15 Elements in the +1 Oxidation State, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2007, 251, 936-973. *Invited Review*

54. Ellis, B. D.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Cycloaddition and Electron Transfer: On A Synthetically-Useful Aspect of Pnictogen(I) Reactivity, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2007, 360, 329-344. *Invited for the special “Inorganic Chemistry – The Next Generation” issue*

53. Ellis, B. D.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Phosphorus(I) Iodide: A Versatile Metathesis Reagent for the Synthesis of Low Oxidation State Phosphorus Compounds, Inorganic Chemistry, 2006, 45, 6864-6874.

52. Ellis, B. D.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Redetermination of an acyclic triphosphenium salt at 173K, Acta Crystallographica, 2006, E62, m1869-m1870.

51. Atwan, M. H.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Northwood, D. O.; Gyenge, E. L. Colloidal Au and Au-alloy catalysts for direct borohydride fuel cells: electrocatalysis and fuel cell performance, Journal of Power Sources, 2006, 158, 36-44.

50. Ellis, B. D.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Redetermination of a cyclic triphosphenium hexachlorostannate salt at 173K, Acta Crystallographica, 2006, E62, m1235-m1236.

49. Pietryga, J. M; Jones, J. N.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Moore, J. A.; Cowley, A. H. Titanium(IV) complexes with amidinate and/or hydrazido ligands, Polyhedron, 2006, 25, 259-265. (Special Issue for Malcolm H. Chisholm)

48. de Frémont, P. ; Scott, N. M.; Stevens, E. D.; Ramnial, D.; Lightbody, O. C.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Clyburne, J. A. C.; Nolan, S. P. Synthesis of Well-Defined N-Heterocyclic Carbene Silver(I) Complexes, Organometallics, 2005, 24, 6301-6309.

47. Jones, J. N.; Moore, J. A.; Cowley, A. H.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Group 14 triple-decker cations, Dalton Transactions, 2005, 3846-3851.

46. Andrews, C. G.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Crown Ether Ligation: An Approach to Low-Oxidation-State Indium Compounds, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2005, 44, 7453-7456.

45. Andrews, C. G.; Macdonald, C. L. B. The unusual reactions of indium(I) trifluoromethanesulfonate with some first row metallocenes and the structure of "indium(II) cyclopentadienide", Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2005, 690, 5090-5097. *Invited for the special “Organometallic Chemistry: The Next Generation” issue*

44. Burford, N.; Cameron, T. S.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Robertson, K. N.; Schurko, R. W.; Walsh, D. M.; McDonald, R.; Wasylishen, R. E. Dissociation of 2,4-bis(2,4,6-tri-t-butylphenyl)-cyclo-1,3-dipnicta-2,4-diazanes (pnict = P, As, Sb) imposed by substituent steric strain: A cyclobutane/olefin analogy, Inorganic Chemistry, 2005, 44, 8058-8064.

43. Andrews, C. G.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Cobaltocenium trifluoromethanesulfonate, Acta Crystallographica, 2005, E61, m2103-m2105.

42. Lo, A. Y. H.; Bitterwolf, T. E.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Schurko, R. W. Solid-state ⁹³Nb and ¹³C NMR investigations of half-sandwich niobium (I) and niobium (V) cyclopentadienyl complexes, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2005, 109, 7073-7087.

41. Gorden, J. D.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Cowley, A. H. Synthesis and Structure of (eta⁵-C₅Me₅)Ga®Al(C₆F₅)₃. The First Example of a Gallium-Aluminum Bond, Main Group Chemistry, 2005, 4, 33-38.

40. Ellis, B. D.; Dyker, C. A.; Decken, A.; Macdonald, C. L. B. The synthesis, characterisation and electronic structure of N-heterocyclic carbene adducts of P(I) cations, Chemical Communications, 2005, 1965-1967.

39. Cowley, A. H.; Jones, J. N.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Triple-decker Tin and Lead Cations, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 2005, 19, 578-582.

38. Hung, I.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Schurko, R. W. Structure and Dynamics of Homoleptic Beryllocenes: A Solid-State ⁹Be and ¹³C NMR Study, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2004, 10, 5923-5935.

37. Ellis. B. D.; Ragogna, P. J.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Computational Insights into the Acceptor Chemistry of Phosphenium Cations, Inorganic Chemistry, 2004, 43, 7857-7867.

36.  Ellis, B. D.; Macdonald, C. L. B.  Stabilized Arsenic(I) Iodide: A Ready Source of Arsenic Iodide Fragments and a Useful Reagent for the Generation of Clusters, Inorganic Chemistry, 2004, 43, 5981-5986.

35.  Choytun, D. D.; Langlois, L.D.; Johansson, T. P.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Leach, G. W.; Weinberg, N.; Clyburne, J. A. C. Azines Possessing Extreme Push-Pull Donors/Acceptors, Chemical Communications, 2004, 1842-1843.

34.  Macdonald, C. L. B.; Corrente, A. M.; Andrews, C. G.; Taylor, A.; Ellis, B. D. Indium (I) Trifluoromethanesulfonate and Other Soluble Salts for Univalent In Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 2004, 250-251.

33.  Ellis, B. D.; Carlesimo, M.; Macdonald, C. L. B.  Stabilised P(I) and As(I) Iodide: Readily-Synthesised Reagents for Low Oxidation State Main Group Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 2003, 1946-1947.

32.  Korotkikh, N. I.; Rayenko, G. F.; Shvaika, O. P.; Cowley, A. H.; Jones, J. N.; Macdonald, C. L. B.  Synthesis of 1,2,4-Triazol-5-ylidenes and their Interaction with Acetonitrile and Chalcogens, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2003, 68, 5762-5765.

31. Wang. Z.; Abernethy, C. D.; Cowley, A. H.; Jones, J. N.; Jones, R. A.;  Macdonald, C. L. B.; Zhang, L.  Synthesis and structures of 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)pyrazol derivatives of Rh(I), Ir(I), Pd(II) and Pt(II), Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2003, 666, 35-42. (Special Issue for Jerry L. Atwood)

30. Jones, J. N.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Gorden, J. D.; Cowley, A. H. Use of a smaller counterion results in an ‘inverse sandwich’ diindium cation, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2003, 666, 3-5. (Special Issue for Jerry L. Atwood)

29. Wiacek, R. J.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Jones, J. N.; Pietryga, J. M.; Cowley, A. H.  The contrasting behaviour of bridged amido-cyclopentadienyl (constrained geometry) group 15 chlorides and cations derived therefrom, Chemical Communications, 2003, 430-431.

28. Hair, G.S.;Cowley, A. H.; Gorden, J. D.; Jones, J. N.; Jones, R. A.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Novel supramolecular architectures in group 13 perfluoroaryl complexes. Synthesis and structures of [AlMe(C₆F₅)(µ-Me)]₂ and GaMe(C₆F₅)₂, Chemical Communications, 2003, 424-425.

27. Burford, N.; Cameron, T. S.; Conroy, K. D.; Ellis, B. D.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; McDonald, R.; Phillips, A. D.; Ragogna, P. J.; Schurko, R. W.; Walsh, D. M.; Wasylishen, R. E. Transformations between Monomeric, Dimeric and Trimeric Phosphazanes: Oligomerising NP Analogues of Olefins, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2002, 124, 14012-14013.

26. Schurko, R.W.; Hung, I.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Cowley, A. H. Anisotropic NMR Interaction Tensors in the Decamethylaluminocenium Cation, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2002, 124, 13204-13214.

25. Schurko, R.W.; Hung, I.; Schauff, S.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Cowley, A. H. Anisotropic NMR Interaction Tensors in Decamethylcyclopentadienyl Boron Complexes, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2002, 106, 10096-10107.

24. Wiacek, R. J.; Jones, J. N.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Cowley, A. H. Structural Interrelationships Between the Bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)arsenic(III) and Antimony(III) Cations and Their Precursor Chlorides, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 2002, 80, 1518-1523. (Special Issue for Tristram Chivers)

23. Burford, N.; Cameron, T. S.; Conroy, K. D.; Ellis, B.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Ovans, R. Phillips, A. D.; Ragogna, P. J.; Walsh, D.  Sequential Dehydrochloride Coupling of Trichlorophosphine with 2,6-Di-isopropylaniline: Aminophosphine Precursors to Phosphetidines, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 2002, 80, 1404-1409. (Special Issue for Tristram Chivers)

22. Jones, J. N.; Cowley, A. H.; Macdonald, C. L. B. The crystal structure of the 'pentamethylcyclopentadienyl cation' is that of the pentamethylcyclopentenyl cation, Chemical Communications, 2002, 1520-1521.

21. Hannah, S.; Lynch, V. M.; Guildi, D. M.; Gerasimchuk, N.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Magda, D.; Sessler, J. L. Late First-Row Transition Metal Complexes of Texaphyrin, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2002, 124, 8416-8427.

20. Gorden, J. D.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Cowley, A. H. The unusual reaction of Ga(C₅Me₅)₃ with a nucleophilic carbene, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2002, 643-644, 487-489.

19. Hardman, N. J.; Power, P. P.; Gorden, J. D.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Cowley, A. H. Gallium-Boron Donor-Acceptor Bonds, Chemical Communications, 2001, 1866-1867. 

18. Hinchley, S. L.; Morrison, C. A.; Rankin, D. W. H.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Wiacek, R. J.; Voigt, A.; Cowley, A. H.; Lappert, M. F.; Gundersen, G.; Clyburne, J. A. C.; Power, P. P. Spontaneous Generation of Stable Pnictinyl Radicals from “Jack-in-the-Box” Dipnictines: A Solid-state, Gas-phase and Theoretical Investigation of the Origins of Steric Stabilization, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2001,123, 9045-9053.

17. Abernethy, C. D.; Cowley, A. H.; Jones, R. A.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Shukla, P.; Thompson, L. K. Nucleophilic Carbene Complexes of Manganocene, Organometallics, 2001, 20, 3629-3631.

15.  Herzog, A.; Callahan, R. P.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Lynch, V. M.; Hawthorne, M. F.; Lagow, R. J. A Perfluorinated Nanosphere: Synthesis and Structure of Perfluoro-deca-B-methyl-para-carborane, Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, 2001, 40, 2121-2124.

13. Cowley, A. H.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Silverman, J. S.; Gorden, J. D.; Voigt, A. Triple Decker Main Group Cations, Chemical Communications, 2001, 175-176.

11. Abernethy, C. D.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Clyburne, J. A. C.; Cowley, A. H. A Persistent C-H•••C(p) T-Stacked Cation, Chemical Communications, 2001, 61-62.

9. Hinchley, S. L.; Morrison, C. A.; Rankin, D. W. H.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Wiacek, R. J.; Cowley, A. H.; Lappert, M. F.; Gundersen, G.; Clyburne, J. A. C.; Power, P. P. Persistent Phosphinyl Radicals from a Bulky Diphosphine: An Example of a Molecular Jack-in-the-Box, Chemical Communications, 2000, 2045-2046.

7. Gorden, J. D., Voigt, A., Macdonald, C. L. B., Silverman, J. S., Cowley, A. H. A Lewis Acid Adduct of an Alanediyl: An Aluminum(I)-Boron Donor-Acceptor Bond, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2000, 122, 950-951.

5. Macdonald, C. L. B., Cowley, A. H. A Theoretical Study of Free and Fe(CO)4 - Complexed Borylenes (Boranediyls) and Heavier Congeners: The Nature of the Iron-Group 13 Element Bonding, Journal of the American Chemical Society 1999, 121, 12113-12126.

3. Burford, N., Macdonald, C. L. B., Robertson, K. N., Cameron, T. S., Synthesis and Structures of Sb[N(H)(C₆H₂^tBu₃)]₃ and Bi[N(H)(C₆H₂^tBu₃)]₃: Implications for the Steric Limits of Supermesityl Substitution, Inorganic Chemistry 1996, 35, 4013-4016.

2. Burford, N.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Parks, T. M.; Wu, G.; Borecka, B.; Kwiatkowski, W.; Cameron, T. S. Preparation and structure of 2-chloro-1,3-dimethyldiaza-2 arsenane, 1,3-dimethyldiaza-2 arsenanium tetrachlorogallate, and butadiene cycloadducts of diazarsenium cations, Canadian Journal of Chemistry 1996, 74, 2209-2216. (Special Issue for Howard C. Clark)

Other Published Work:

7. Dhayal, V.; Sharma, N.; Sharma, V.; Bohra, R.; Drake, J. E.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Synthesis and characterization of some dimethylsilicon(IV) complexes with internally functionalized oximes: Crystal and molecular structure of [Me₂Si{ON@C(H)C₄H₃O-2}₂]. Formation of mesoporous materials by the hydrolytic study of [Me₂Si{ON@C(CH₃)C₄H₃O-2}₂] in the presence of Al(OPrⁱ)₃, Polyhedron, 2007, 26, 3168-3174.

6. Drake, J. E.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Kumar, A.; Pandey, S. K.; Ratnani, R. The triethyl ammonium salt of O,O'-bis(o-tolyl) dithiophosphate [Et₃NH]⁺[(2-MeC₆H₄O)₂PS₂]^-, Journal of Chemical Crystallography, 2005, 35, 447-450.

5. Kulcsar, M.; Silvestru, A.; Silvestru, C.; Drake, J. E.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Hursthouse, M. E.; Light, M. E. Organoselenium(II) and selenium(IV) compounds containing 2-(Me₂NCH₂)C₆H₄ moieties: solution behavior and solid state structure, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2005, 690, 3217-3228.

4. Korotkikh, N. I.; Shvaika, O. P.; Rayenko, G. F.; Kiselyov, A. V.; Knishevitsky, A. V.; Cowley, A. H.; Jones, J. N.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Stable heteroaromatic carbenes of the benzimidazole and 1,2,4-triazole series, ARKIVOC, 2005, 10-43.

3. Singh, G.; Bali, S.; Singh, A. K.; Drake, J. E.; Macdonald, C. L. B.; Hursthouse, M. B.; Little, M. E. Reactions of hybrid organotellurium ligands 1-(4-methoxyphenyltelluro)-2-[3-(6-methyl-2-pyridyl) propoxy]ethane (L1) and 1-ethylthio-2-[2-thienyltelluro]ethane (L2) with mercury (II) bromide: formation of complexes and their decomposition, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2005, 358, 912-918.

2. Ellis, B. D.; Macdonald, C. L. B. Low Oxidation State Group 15 Elements as Pnicta-Wittig Reagents, Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon 2004, 179, 775-778. (IRIS-X special issue)

1. Macdonald, C. L. B.; Cowley, A. H. Stable "Transient" Carbenes, Chemtracts-Inorganic Chemistry 2001, 14, 25-29.