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  1. Nitrile coordination to rhodium does not lead to C—H activation

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry, October 2016, International Union of Crystallography

    William Jones

  2. Rapid oxidative hydrogen evolution from a family of square-planar nickel hydride complexes

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    William Jones

  3. Synthesis and energetics of Tp′Rh[P(OMe)3](R)H: a systematic investigation of ligand effects on C–H activation at rhodium

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    William Jones

  4. Bisindolines from the reaction of 3,5-dimethoxyaniline with vicinal diones

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    William Jones

  5. Kinetic and Thermodynamic Selectivity of Intermolecular C–H Activation at [Tp′Rh(PMe3)]. How Does the Ancillary Ligand Affect the Metal–Carbon Bond Strength?

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  6. Rhodium–Carbon Bond Energies in Tp′Rh(CNneopentyl)(CH2X)H: Quantifying Stabilization Effects in M–C Bonds

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  7. Carbon–Oxygen Bond Activation in Esters by Platinum(0): Cleavage of the Less Reactive Bond

    Article • Organometallics, July 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  8. C–H Activation of Terminal Alkynes by Tris-(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)boraterhodiumneopentylisocyanide: New Metal–Carbon Bond Strengths

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  9. Catalytic Arene H/D Exchange with Novel Rhodium and Iridium Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, February 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  10. C–CN Bond Activation of Benzonitrile with [Rh–I(dippe)]−

    Article • Organometallics, October 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  11. C–S Bond Activation of Thioesters Using Platinum(0)

    Article • Organometallics, September 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  12. Synthesis and Reactivity of New Ni, Pd, and Pt 2,6-Bis(di-tert-butylphosphinito)pyridine Pincer Complexes

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, September 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  13. Predicting Selectivity in Oxidative Addition of C–S Bonds of Substituted Thiophenes to a Platinum(0) Fragment: An Experimental and Theoretical Study

    Article • Organometallics, August 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  14. Controlling the Selectivity for C–H and C–CN Bond Activation at Rhodium: A DFT Examination of Ligand Effects

    Article • Organometallics, June 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  15. C−CN vs C−H Cleavage of Benzonitrile Using [(dippe)PtH]2

    Article • Organometallics, March 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  16. C−H and C−CN Bond Activation of Acetonitrile and Succinonitrile by [Tp′Rh(PR3)]

    Article • Organometallics, January 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  17. DFT Calculations of the Isomerization of 2-Methyl-3-butenenitrile by [Ni(bisphosphine)] in Relation to the DuPont Adiponitrile Process

    Article • Organometallics, December 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  18. Reactivity and Regioselectivity of Insertion of Unsaturated Molecules into M−C (M = Ir, Rh) Bonds of Cyclometalated Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, September 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  19. Competitive Carbon−Sulfur vs Carbon−Carbon Bond Activation of 2-Cyanothiophene with [Ni(dippe)H]2

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  20. C−CN Bond Activation of Aromatic Nitriles and Fluxionality of the η2-Arene Intermediates: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations

    Article • Organometallics, May 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  21. Carbon−Sulfur Bond Activation of Dibenzothiophenes and Phenoxythiin by [Rh(dippe)(μ-H)]2 and [Rh2(dippe)2(μ-Cl)(μ-H)]

    Article • Organometallics, May 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  22. Reactivity Differences of Pt0 Phosphine Complexes in C−C Bond Activation of Asymmetric Acetylenes

    Article • Organometallics, October 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  23. Diverse Chemical Applications of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  24. C−H Activation of Phenyl Imines and 2-Phenylpyridines with [Cp*MCl2]2 (M = Ir, Rh): Regioselectivity, Kinetics, and Mechanism

    Article • Organometallics, May 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  25. Carbon−Sulfur Bond Cleavage of Methyl-Substituted Thiophenes with Iridium(III)

    Article • Organometallics, April 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  26. Selective C−H Activation of Haloalkanes using a Rhodiumtrispyrazolylborate Complex

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  27. Mechanistic Insights on the Hydrodesulfurization of Biphenyl-2-thiol with Nickel Compounds

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  28. An Efficient Low-Temperature Route to Polycyclic Isoquinoline Salt Synthesis via C−H Activation with [Cp*MCl2]2 (M = Rh, Ir)

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  29. Oxidative Addition of the C−S Bond of Thiophene to the (C5Me5)Rh(PMe3) Fragment: A Theoretical Study Revisited

    Article • Organometallics, July 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  30. Experimental and Theoretical Examination of C−CN Bond Activation of Benzonitrile Using Zerovalent Nickel

    Article • Organometallics, June 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  31. Solvent Effects and Activation Parameters in the Competitive Cleavage of C−CN and C−H Bonds in 2-Methyl-3-Butenenitrile Using [(dippe)NiH]2

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, June 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  32. Understanding Selectivity in the Oxidative Addition of the Carbon−Sulfur Bonds of 2-Cyanothiophene to Pt(0)

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, May 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  33. Catalytic Isomerization of 2-Methyl-3-butenenitrile by Nickel Systems Using Bis-diphosphinoferrocene Ligands:  Evidence for Hemilability

    Article • Organometallics, October 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  34. Experimental and Theoretical Examination of C−CN and C−H Bond Activations of Acetonitrile Using Zerovalent Nickel

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  35. Nickel Complexes Involved in the Isomerization of 2-Methyl-3-butenenitrile

    Article • Organometallics, February 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  36. Alkane Coordination Selectivity in Hydrocarbon Activation by [Tp‘Rh(CNneopentyl)]:  The Role of Alkane Complexes

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  37. On the Nature of Carbon−Hydrogen Bond Activation at Rhodium and Related Reactions

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, July 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  38. On the Nature of Carbon−Hydrogen Bond Activation at Rhodium and Related Reactions

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, May 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  39. Alkane Complexes as Intermediates in C—H Bond Activation Reactions

    Article • July 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  40. Cleavage of Carbon−Carbon Bonds in Alkyl Cyanides Using Nickel(0)

    Article • Organometallics, July 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  41. Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of a Rhenium Complex with a Corannulene-Based Ligand

    Article • Organometallics, October 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  42. Selective Conversion of Diallylanilines and Arylimines to Quinolines

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, April 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  43. Isotope Effects in C−H Bond Activation Reactions by Transition Metals

    Article • Accounts of Chemical Research, November 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  44. η2-Coordination and C−H Activation of Electron-Poor Arenes

    Article • Organometallics, October 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  45. Cleavage of Carbon−Carbon Bonds in Aromatic Nitriles Using Nickel(0)

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  46. Conformational Behavior and Coordination Chemistry of 2,11-Dithia[3.3]orthocyclophane with Platinum Group Metals

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, June 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones, Professor Stephen J Loeb, Professor Jorge Tiburcio

  47. Catalytic C−C Bond Activation in Biphenylene and Cyclotrimerization of Alkynes:  Increased Reactivity of P,N- versus P,P-Substituted Nickel Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, April 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  48. Chelating P,N versus P,P Ligands:  Differing Reactivity of Donor-Stabilized Pt(η2-PhC⋮CPh) Complexes Toward Diphenylacetylene

    Article • Organometallics, February 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  49. Thermal and Photochemical Silicon−Carbon Bond Activation in Donor-Stabilized Platinum(0)−Alkyne Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, February 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  50. Formation of Tetrafluorobenzyne by β-Fluoride Elimination in Zirconium-Perfluorophenyl Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, January 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  51. Rhodium-Catalyzed Activation and Functionalization of the C−C Bond of Biphenylene

    Article • Organometallics, November 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  52. Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions of Biphenylene with Olefins, Arylboronic Acids, and Ketones Involving C−C Bond Cleavage

    Article • Organometallics, June 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  53. Formation of Phenylene Oligomers Using Platinum−Phosphine Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, May 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  54. Reversible Cleavage of Carbon−Carbon Bonds in Benzonitrile Using Nickel(0)

    Article • Organometallics, November 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  55. Aliphatic Carbon−Fluorine Bond Activation Using (C5Me5)2ZrH2

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  56. Selective Carbonylation Routes to Thiocarbamates. An Alternative to Phosgene

    Article • Organometallics, March 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  57. Catalytic Carbon−Carbon and Carbon−Silicon Bond Activation and Functionalization by Nickel Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, October 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  58. Catalytic Carbon−Carbon Bond Activation and Functionalization by Nickel Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, August 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  59. Modeling the Hydrodesulfurization Reaction at Nickel. Unusual Reactivity of Dibenzothiophenes Relative to Thiophene and Benzothiophene

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  60. Carbon−Fluorine Bond Cleavage by Zirconium Metal Hydride Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, July 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  61. Photochemical C−H Activation and Ligand Exchange Reactions of CpRe(PPh3)2H2. Phosphine Dissociation Is Not Involved

    Article • Organometallics, April 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  62. Evidence for the Existence of a Late-Metal Terminal Sulfido Complex

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  63. Cleavage of the Carbon−Sulfur Bonds in Thiophenes by a Binuclear Ruthenium Complex

    Article • Organometallics, March 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  64. Energetics of Homogeneous Intermolecular Vinyl and Allyl Carbon−Hydrogen Bond Activation by the 16-Electron Coordinatively Unsaturated Organometallic Fragment [Tp‘Rh(CNCH2CMe3)]

    Article • Organometallics, January 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  65. Insertion of Elemental Sulfur and SO2 into the Metal−Hydride and Metal−Carbon Bonds of Platinum Compounds

    Article • Organometallics, December 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  66. Activation of Sulfur- and Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles by a Dinuclear Iridium Complex

    Article • Organometallics, December 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  67. 11B NMR:  A New Tool for the Determination of Hapticity of Tris(pyrazolyl)borate Ligands

    Article • Organometallics, October 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  68. Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of Biphenylene with Platinum, Palladium, and Nickel Phosphine Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, September 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  69. Carbon−Hydrogen and Carbon−Carbon Bond Activation of Cyclopropane by a Hydridotris(pyrazolyl)borate Rhodium Complex

    Article • Organometallics, September 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  70. Synthesis and Reactions of Cp-Linked Phosphine Complexes of Rhodium

    Article • Organometallics, August 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  71. Deep Hydrodesulfurization in Homogeneous Solution:  Access to a Transition-Metal Insertion Complex of 4,6-Dimethyldibenzothiophene

    Article • Organometallics, July 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  72. Insertion of SO2 into the Metal−Carbon Bonds of Rhodium and Iridium Compounds, and Reactivity of the SO2-Inserted Species

    Article • Organometallics, March 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  73. Room-Temperature Desulfurization of Dibenzothiophene Mediated by [(i-Pr2PCH2)2NiH]2

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  74. Mechanism of Carbon−Fluorine Bond Activation by (C5Me5)Rh(PMe3)H2

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  75. Structure of Metallathiacycles:  Planar vs Nonplanar Geometries. A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation

    Article • Organometallics, August 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  76. Carbon−Selenium Bond Cleavage by a Rhodium Complex

    Article • Organometallics, June 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  77. Synthesis and Characterization of (Tris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)borato)rhodium Alkyl and Vinyl Chloride Complexes

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, June 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  78. Hydrodesulfurization of Thiophene and Benzothiophene to Butane and Ethylbenzene by a Homogeneous Iridium Complex

    Article • Organometallics, April 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  79. Substituent Effects on Reductive Elimination from Disubstituted Aryl Hydride Complexes: Mechanistic and Thermodynamic Considerations

    Article • Organometallics, December 1995, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  80. Bond Cleavage Reactions in Oxygen and Nitrogen Heterocycles by a Rhodium Phosphine Complex

    Article • Organometallics, February 1995, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  81. Carbon-Sulfur Bond Cleavage in Thiophene by Group 6 Metallocenes

    Article • Organometallics, November 1994, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  82. Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of an Aryl-Aryl Carbon-Carbon Bond with a Rhodium Complex

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 1994, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  83. Functionalization of benzylic carbon-hydrogen bonds. Mechanism and scope of the catalytic synthesis of indoles with [Ru(dmpe)2]

    Article • Organometallics, January 1994, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  84. Hydrodesulfurization of thiophene to butadiene and butane by a homogeneous iridium complex

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, January 1994, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  85. Mechanism of formation of carbon-carbon bonds in the ring opening and coupling of thiophene by rhodium complex, (C5Me5)Rh(C2H4)2

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, December 1992, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  86. Thiophene carbon-sulfur bond cleavage by cobalt. Synthesis, structure, and dynamics of [(C5Me5)Co]2(C4H4S)

    Article • Organometallics, July 1992, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  87. Multiple .eta.2-arene coordination. Structure and isomerism of naphthalene complexes of rhodium phosphine [(C5Me5)Rh(PMe3)]

    Article • Organometallics, February 1992, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  88. Effects of phosphine on structure and reductive elimination reactions of (C5Me5)Rh(PR3)PhH complexes

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, June 1991, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  89. Ring migration reactions of (C5Me5)Rh(PMe3)H2. Evidence for .eta.3 slippage and metal-to-ring hydride migration

    Article • Organometallics, May 1991, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  90. Synthesis and structures of rhodium isocyanide complexes containing an .eta.2-hydrotris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)borate ligand

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, February 1991, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  91. Insertion of rhodium into the carbon-sulfur bond of thiophene. Mechanism of a model for the hydrodesulfurization reaction

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, January 1991, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  92. Preparation and characterization of rhodium pentamethylcyclopentadienyl isocyanide complexes, (C5Me5)Rh(CNR)2 and [(C5Me5)Rh(CNR)]2 complexes

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, April 1990, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  93. Catalytic functionalization of carbon-hydrogen bonds by isonitrile insertion. Preparation, characterization, and reactivity of RhCl(PR3)2(CNR')

    Article • Organometallics, March 1990, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  94. Hydride abstraction. The reaction of [bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane]carbonylhaloiridium with bis(cyclopentadienyl)trihydridotantalum

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, February 1990, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  95. Reactions of rhodium complexes (C5Me5)Rh(PMe3)(R)H with electrophiles. Insertion of unsaturated molecules into activated carbon-hydrogen bonds

    Article • Organometallics, January 1990, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  96. Direct observation of .eta.2-arene complexes of [(C5Me5)Rh(PMe3)]

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 1989, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  97. Comparative reactivities of hydrocarbon carbon-hydrogen bonds with a transition-metal complex

    Article • Accounts of Chemical Research, March 1989, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  98. Synthesis, structures, and carbon-hydrogen bond activation reactions of HRe(PR3)2(L)3 complexes

    Article • Organometallics, August 1987, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  99. Preparation and C-N cleavage reactions of bis[(dimethylphosphino)ethane]ruthenium isocyanide complexes

    Article • Organometallics, September 1986, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  100. Carbon-hydrogen bond activation by ruthenium for the catalytic synthesis of indoles

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 1986, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  101. Isotope effects in arene carbon-hydrogen bond activation by [(C5Me5)Rh(PMe3)]

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 1986, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  102. Preparation and structural comparison of the ruthenium(0) derivatives Ru(DMPE)2L (L = PMe3, CO; DMPE = 1,2-bis(dimethylphosphino)ethane)

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, May 1986, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  103. Activation of carbon-hydrogen bonds by rhenium. Catalytic intermolecular hydrogen-deuterium exchange with (.eta.6-C6H6)Re(PPh3)2H

    Article • Organometallics, May 1986, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  104. The activation of methane by rhenium. Catalytic hydrogen/deuterium exchange in alkanes with CpRe(PPh3)2H2

    Article • Organometallics, March 1986, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  105. Direct intermolecular transfer of dihydrogen between two transition metal complexes

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 1985, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  106. Preparation and reaction dynamics of (.eta.4-C5H6)Re(PPh3)2H3. A structurally characterized .eta.4-cyclopentadiene complex

    Article • Organometallics, May 1985, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  107. Kinetics and thermodynamics of intra- and intermolecular carbon-hydrogen bond activation

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 1985, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  108. Preparation and conformational dynamics of (C5Me5)Rh(PR13)RX. Hindered rotation about rhodium-phosphorus and rhodium-carbon bonds

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, August 1984, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  109. Preparation and reactions of new isocyanide complexes of rhodium and their role in carbon-hydrogen bond activation

    Article • Organometallics, May 1983, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  110. Alkane carbon-hydrogen bond activation by homogeneous rhodium(I) compounds

    Article • Organometallics, April 1983, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  111. Intermediates in the associative phosphine substitution reaction of (.eta.5-C5H5)Re(CO)3

    Article • Organometallics, April 1983, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  112. Mechanism of arene carbon-hydrogen bond activation by (C5Me5)Rh(PMe3)(H)Ph. Evidence for arene precoordination

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 1982, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones

  113. Comparative reactivities of two isoelectronic transition-metal hydrides with transition-metal carbonyls and alkyls

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 1981, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Jones