Bercaw, John E.

Advisor — 77 thesises

• Lin, Bo-Lin — A Combined Experimental and Computational Study of Ligand Effects on C-H Bond Activation by Palladium and Platinum Complexes (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Owen, Jonathan Scharle — A Study of Ligand Substitution and its Importance in the C-H Activation of Methane and Methanol (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Chi-Woo — Adsorption and Electrochemistry of BIS-1, 10-Phenanthroline Complexes of Copper (I,II) and Fungal Laccase A (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thiel, Patricia Ann — Adsorption, Co-Adsorption and Catalytic Reactions on Rh(111) and Ru(001) Surfaces (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Biller, Scott Adams — An Approach to the Total Synthesis of (±)-Naphthyridinomycin A (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ackerman, Lily Joy — Ancillary Ligand Effects in Niobocene Olefin Hydride Complexes and Hydrocarbon Oxidation by Palladium(II) Complexes (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wong-Foy, Antek Golangco — Ancillary Ligand Effects in Zirconium(IV) Aminoborollide and Nitrogen Chelated Pt(II) Complexes (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chirik, Paul James — Ancillary Ligand Effects on Fundamental Transformations in Metallocene Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhong, Hong A. — Ancillary Ligand Effects: From Zirconium(IV)-Catalyzed Homogeneous Propylene Polymerization to Platinum(II)-Mediated C-H Bond Activation (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lenton, Taylor Nichole Baker — Bis(thiophenolate)pyridine Pincer Ligands and Trivalent Zirconocene Complexes Relevant to Earlv Transition Metal Polymerization Catalysts (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Klet, Rachel Christine — Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions from Bis(carbene)-Platinum(II) Complexes and Olefin Polymerization and Oligomerization using Group 4 Post-Metallocene Complexes (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bulls, Al Ray — Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation by Peralkylhafnocene and Peralkylscandocene Derivatives (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Winston, Matthew Steven — Chemistry of PNP Bis(phosphide) Pincer Ligands and Palladium(II) Dimers as Robust, Versatile Precatalysts for Olefin Isomerization, Oligomerization, and Oxidation (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Abrams, Michael Benjamin — Design, Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Group III ansa-Metallocenes Containing Bulky Alkyl and Silyl Substituents (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Herzog, Timothy Allan — Deuterium Isotope Effects as Evidence for α-Agostic Assistance in Ziegler-Natta Catalysts. Design, Synthesis, and Reactivity of a New Class of Highly Syndiospecific Ziegler-Natta Polymerization Catalysts (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rreza, Iva — Development of Tantalum Phenoxy-Imine Compounds for Selective Ethylene Oligomerization (2014, Senior thesis (Major))
• Klamo, Sara Bernadine — Direct Examination of Initiation and Propagation Kinetics of Zirconocene-Catalyzed Alkene Polymerization (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Threlkel, Richard S. — Early Transition Metal Organometallic Reactivity. Catalytic Acetylene Hydrogenation and Dimerization. Carbene Migratory Insertion Reactions (1980, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Willett, Brian Christopher — Electron Transfer Rates and Adsorption in the Electrochemistry of Cobalt-2,2'-Bipyridine, Ruthenium Ammine Thiocyanate Complexes and cis-[(C₅H₅)Fe(CO)P(C₆H₅)₂]₂ (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Alexander James Minden — Emissive Monocopper Amidophosphine Complexes and Lewis Acid-Assisted Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tonks, Ian Albert — Fundamental Studies of Early Transition Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds: Structure, Electronics, and Catalysis (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spies, George Harlan — I. Studies on the Coordination of Bis-hydroxybenzamido Chelating Ligations to Chromium, Iron, and Osmium. II. A Survey of the Organometallic Chemistry of Osmium Tetraoxide (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Manriquez, Juan Manuel — I. The Reduction of Molecular Nitrogen in Binuclear Dinitrogen Complexes of Titanium and Zirconium. II. Hydrogen Reduction of Carbon Monoxide Promoted by Mononuclear Carbonyl and Hydride Complexes of Bis(Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) Zirconium (1977, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Haney, Susan Elaine — Investigation of low-valent ruthenium aquo complexes (1992, Master's thesis)
• Baldwin, Steven M. — Investigation of the Role of Hydrides in Zirconocene Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weinberg, David Richard — Investigations into the Requirements for Homogeneous Platinum- and Iridium-Catalyzed Oxidative C-H Bond Functionalization (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scott, Valerie J. — Investigations of C-H Activation and the Conversion of Methanol to Triptane (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zubris, Deanna Lynn — Investigations of the Origin of Stereocontrol in Syndiospecific Ziegler-Natta Polymerizations (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Coughlin, Edward Bryan, III — Iso-Specific Ziegler-Natta Polymerization of α-Olefins with a Single-Component Organoyttrium Catalyst (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Min, Endy Yeo-Jung — Kinetic Resolution of Chiral ∝-Olefins Using Enantiopure Ziegler-Natta Polymerization Catalysts (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, George Shuxiong — Mechanisms of C-H Bond Activation by Platinum(II) (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trimmer, Mark S. — Mechanistic and Reactivity Studies of Bent Metallocene Complexes of Niobium and Tantalum (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stahl, Shannon Scot — Mechanistic Studies of Alkane Activation by Platinum(II) Complexes (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Stephen Albert — Metallocene-mediated olefin polymerization : the effects of distal ligand perturbations on polymer stereochemistry (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yoder, Jeffrey Charles — Model Studies of Ziegler-Natta Olefin Polymerization Using Group 3 and Group 4 Metallocenes (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Coolbaugh, Thomas Smith — Nucleophilic Activation of Carbon Monoxide: Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of Intramolecular Group VI Metallaesters (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burger, Barbara J. — Olefin Insertion and β-Elimination Reactions of Permethylniobocene Olefin Hydride and Permethylscandocene Alkyl Complexes (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weck, Marcus — Olefin Metathesis for the Synthesis of Supramolecular Structures (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McAlister, Donald Robert — Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms: Catalytic Cyclotrimerization of Alkynes, Reduction of Carbon Monoxide and Reductive Elimination from an Alkylhydride Complex (1978, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Golisz, Suzanne Rose — Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms: Olefin Polymerization Catalysis and C-H Bond Activation by Early Transition Metal Bisphenolate Complexes and Protonolysis of Bipyrimidine Platinum Methyl Complexes (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cotter, W. Donald — Organoscandium complexes as mechanistic probes in the Ziegler-Natta polymerization of α-olefins and dienes (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Quan, Roger Weihong — Oxo, imido, and borollide complexes of tantalum and zirconium (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barner, Claudia Jane — Part I. Coordination Chemistry of High-Valent Osmium Polyanionic Chelating Ligand Complexes with Imine, Imido and Nitrido Ligands. Part II. Asymmetric Hydrogenation Using a Resolved Chiral Scandium Hydride Complex (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shapiro, Pamela Joy — Part I. Scandium Hydride and Alkyl Complexes with a Linked Monocyclopentadienyl-Amido Ligand-Framework: Single Component Catalysts for the Polymerization of α-Olefins. Part II. Hydrazido(1-) and 2,2-Dimethylhydrazido(1-) Derivatives of Permethylscandocene. Preparation and Structural Characterization of their Products from Reactions with Acetonitrile (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kiely, Andrew F. — Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Aminoborole Complexes of Hafnium (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Asselt, Allan van — Reactions of Oxygen Containing Ligands in the Coordination Sphere of Permethylhafnocene and Permethyltantalocene (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rostovtsev, Vsevolod Vladimirovich — Reactions of Platinum(II) Complexes with Dioxygen: Progress Toward Alkane Functionalization (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ott, Kevin Curtis — Some Mechanistic and Synthetic Aspects of the Interaction of Lewis Acids with Bis-Cyclopentadienyltitanium(IV) Alkyls and Bis-Cyclopentadienyltitanacyclobutanes (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wong, Chi-Kin — Spectroscopic Studies of Gas-Phase Molecular Clusters (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maverick, Andrew William — Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of Polynuclear Metal Complexes (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schweizer, Albert Edward, Jr. — Studies of Some Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms (1974, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Main, Rebekah Mary — Studies Towards the Development of New Catalysts for Methane Conversion (2002, Master's thesis)
• Smith, Terrance Patrick — Syntheses and Characterization of a Series of Binuclear Iridium Complexes (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lai, Re — Synthesis and Characterization of ZSM-5 Zeolite Membranes (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thompson, Mark Edward — Synthesis and Investigations into the Reactivity of Electron Deficient Organoscandium Complexes (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Paciello, Rocco Angelo — Synthesis and Reactivity of Electron-Rich Ruthenium and Iron Half-Sandwich Complexes (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Whinnery, Leroy L. — Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of some permethyltantalocene alkylidenes and unusually stable metallaoxetanes (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Auburn, Pamela Rae — Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Permethyltitanocene Monoethylene Complex (1980, Master's thesis)
• Weintrob, Edward Charles — Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity Studies of Pyridine Bis(anilide) Iron Complexes (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Byers, Jeffery Allen — Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies into the Kinetic Resolution of α-olefins Using C₁₋ and C₂₋ Symmetric Zirconocene Polymerization Catalysts (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bunel, Emilio Enrique — Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Organoscandium Compounds. Dimerization and Branching of Alkenes Catalyzed by Scandocene Hydrides (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sanner, Robert D. — Synthetic and Structural Investigations of Dinitrogen, Carbonyl, Olefin, Dichloride, and Hydride Derivatives of Bis(Pentamethylclopentadienyl)Titanium and Zirconium (1978, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• St. Clair, Martin A. — Synthetic and Structural Studies of Permethylscandocene and Permethyltantalocene Derivatives (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McDade, Christine — Synthetic, Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies in Early Transition Metal Systems. I. α- and β-Hydrogen Elimination Reactions in Derivatives of Permethyltitanocene, -Zirconocene, and -Hafnocene. II. The Reactions of Aluminum Alkyls with Derivatives of Permethylniobocene (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Agapie, Theodor — Synthetic, Reactivity, and Mechanistic Studies Relevant to Olefin Oligomerization and Polymerization (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nelson, Janet Elizabeth — Synthetic, Structural, and Mechanistic Studies in Early Transition Metal and Actinide Chemistry (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hajela, Sharad — Synthetic, structural, and mechanistic studies of homogeneous Ziegler-Natta catalysis (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krafft, Terry Edward — The Design Multianionic Chelating Ligands for the Production of Inorganic Oxidizing Agents, Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of Osmium Complexes Derived from a Tetradentate Ligand (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schofer, Susan Jessica — The Effect of Ligand Array on Stereocontrol and Molecular Weight in Metallocene-Catalyzed α-Olefin Polymerization and (PNP)CrPh₃ Complexes as Well-Defined Ethylene Trimerization Catalysts (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelson, Eric P. — The electrocatalytic and stoichiometric oxidation chemistry of binuclear ruthenium complexes incorporating the anionic tripod ligand {(η5-C5H5)Co[P(OCH3)2(=O)]3}- (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Birnbaum, Eva Rachel — The mechanism of catalytic hydrocarbon oxidation by molecular oxygen and halogenated ruthenium and iron porphyrins (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Elowe, Paul Richard — The Selective Oligomerization of Ethylene Using Chromium Diphosphine Catalysts and the Synthesis and Reactivity of Group 7 Carbonyl Derivatives Relevant to Synthesis Gas Conversion (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carter, Boyd Jay — The Substitution Kinetics and Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy of Some Molybdenum and Tungsten Bis-Dinitrogen Complexes (1979, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Olson, Wendy Ann — The Synthesis and Reactivity of New Niobium (V) Polyhydrides (1983, Master's thesis)
• Blake, Robert Edward, Jr. — The Synthesis, Characterization and Study of Transition Metal Complexes for the Oxidation and Activation of Hydrocarbons (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oblad, Paul Frederick — Toward the Upgrading of Hydrocarbons: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Platinum and Palladium Complexes (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chong, Sing Hwa — Ultrafast Dynamics of Barrier Crossing: Step-Wise Solvation Effect on Isomerization of Trans-Stilbene in Alkane Clusters (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))