Research from the Holland Group is internationally recognized for its high quality and novelty. A large number of our manuscripts have been published in highly prestigious journals.
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58. Keying Ding, Thomas R. Dugan, William W. Brennessel, Eckhard Bill, and Patrick L. Holland, "Synthesis, Properties, and Reactivity of Diketiminate-Supported Cobalt Fluoride Complexes," Organometallics, ASAP article (DOI).
57. Timothy E. Machonkin, Patrick L. Holland, Kristine N. Smith, Justin S. Liberman, Adriana Dinescu, Thomas R. Cundari, Sara S. Rocks, "Determination of the Active Site of Sphingomonas chlorophenolica 2,6-dichloro-p-hydroquinone dioxygenase (PcpA)," J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., in press.
56. Keying Ding, Ferdous Zannat, James C. Morris, William W. Brennessel, and Patrick L. Holland, "Coordination of N-Methylpyrrolidone to Iron(II)," J. Organomet. Chem. 2009, 694, 4204-4208. (DOI)
55. Keying Ding, William W. Brennessel, and Patrick L. Holland, "Three-Coordinate and Four-Coordinate Cobalt Hydride Complexes That React with Dinitrogen," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 10804-10805. (DOI)
54. Keying Ding, Aaron W. Pierpont, William W. Brennessel, Gudrun Lukat-Rodgers, Kenton R. Rodgers, Thomas R. Cundari, Eckhard Bill and Patrick L. Holland, "Cobalt-Dinitrogen Complexes with Weakened N-N Bonds," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 9471-9472. (DOI)
53. Thomas R. Dugan, Patrick L. Holland, "New Routes to Low-Coordinate Iron Hydride Complexes: The Binuclear Oxidative Addition of H2," J. Organomet. Chem. 2009, 694, 2825-2830. (Special Issue on Organometallics for Energy Conversion) (DOI)
52. Karen P. Chiang, Pamela M. Barrett, Feizhi Ding, Jeremy M. Smith, Savariraj Kingsley, William W. Brennessel, Meghan M. Clark, Rene J. Lachicotte, Patrick L. Holland, "Ligand Dependence of Binding to Three-Coordinate Fe(II) Complexes," Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 5106-5116. (DOI)
51. Ryan E. Cowley, Eckhard Bill, Frank Neese, William W. Brennessel, Patrick L. Holland, "Iron(II) Complexes With Redox-Active Tetrazene (RNNNNR) Ligands," Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 4828-4836. (DOI)
50. Azwana R. Sadique, William W. Brennessel, Patrick L. Holland, "A diketiminate-bound diiron complex with a bridging carbonate ligand," Acta Cryst. C 2009, 65, m174-m176. (online)
49. Meghan M. Clark, William W. Brennessel, Patrick L. Holland, "Bis(η5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)cobalt(II)," Acta Cryst. E 2009, 65, m391. (online) (Cover of Acta. Cryst. E)
48. Ryan E. Cowley, Nathan A. Eckert, Jerome E. Elhaïk, Patrick L. Holland, "Catalytic nitrene transfer from an imidoiron(III) complex to form carbodiimides and isocyanates," Chem. Commun. 2009, 1760-1762. (DOI)
47. Daniel J. Mindiola, Patrick L. Holland, Timothy H. Warren, "Complexes of Bulky Beta-Diketiminate Ligands: Introduction," Inorg. Synth., in press.
46. Matthew S. Varonka, Timothy H. Warren, Thomas R. Dugan, Ryan E. Cowley, Patrick L. Holland, "Beta-Diketiminate Precursors HLMe,Me3 and TlLMe,Me3,"Inorg. Synth., in press.
45. Debashis Adhikari, Ba L. Tran, Francisco J. Zuno-Cruz, Gloria Sanchez Cabrera, Daniel J. Mindiola, Karen P. Chiang, Ryan E. Cowley, Thomas R. Dugan, Patrick L. Holland, "Beta-Diketiminate Precursors LMe,iPr2H, [LMe,iPr2Li]x, and [LtBu,iPr2K]x," Inorg. Synth., in press.
44. Ryan E. Cowley, Karen P. Chiang, Patrick L. Holland, Debashis Adhikari, Francisco J. Zuno-Cruz, Gloria Sanchez Cabrera, Daniel J. Mindiola, "Beta-Diketiminate Precursors LtBu,iPr2H and LtBu,iPr2Li(THF)," Inorg. Synth., in press.
43. Bryan D. Stubbert, Patrick L. Holland, Debashis Adhikari, Daniel J. Mindiola, "Beta-Diketiminate Supported Iron Chloride Complex of LMe,iPr2," Inorg. Synth., in press.
42. Karen P. Chiang, Patrick L. Holland, Debashis Adhikari, Daniel J. Mindiola, "Beta-Diketiminate Supported Iron Chloride Complex of LtBu,iPr2," Inorg. Synth., in press.
41. Keying Ding, Patrick L. Holland, Debashis Adhikari, Daniel J. Mindiola, "Beta-Diketiminate Supported Cobalt Chloride Complex of LtBu,iPr2," Inorg. Synth., in press.
40. Marie M. Melzer, Elzbieta Kogut, Matthew S. Varonka, Stefan Wiese, Timothy H. Warren, Sara S. Rocks, Patrick L. Holland, "Beta-Diketiminate Supported Nickel(II) and Nickel(I) Complexes of LMe,Me3," Inorg. Synth., in press.
39. Thomas R. Dugan, Patrick L. Holland, Stefan Wiese, Timothy H. Warren, "Beta-Diketiminate Supported Nickel(II) Complex of LMe,iPr2," Inorg. Synth., in press.
38. Yosra M. Badiei, Timothy H. Warren, Karen P. Chiang, Patrick L. Holland, "Beta-Diketiminate Supported Copper(I) Arene Complex of LMe,Me3," Inorg. Synth., in press.
37. Patrick L. Holland, Marie M. Melzer, Timothy H. Warren, "Beta-Diketiminate Supported Copper(II) Chloride Complex of LMe,iPr2, "Inorg. Synth., in press.
36. Patrick L. Holland, "Nitrogen Fixation," in McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2009, pp. 255-256. (book)
35. Sara S. Rocks, William W. Brennessel, Timothy E. Machonkin, Patrick L. Holland, "Solid-State and
Proton NMR Characterization of an Iron(II) Complex of a Tridentate, Facially Coordinating
N,N,O Donor Ligand," Inorg. Chim. Acta 2009, 362, 1387-1390. (DOI)
34. Sebastian Stoian, Jeremy M. Smith, Patrick L. Holland, Eckard Münck, Emile L. Bominaar, "Mössbauer, EPR, and theoretical study of a high-spin, four-coordinate Fe(II) diketiminate complex," Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 8687-8695. (DOI)
33. (Review) Patrick L. Holland, "Electronic Structure
and Reactivity of Three-Coordinate Iron Complexes," Acc. Chem. Res. 2008, 41, 905-914. (DOI)
32. Ying Yu, Azwana R. Sadique, Jeremy M. Smith, Thomas R. Dugan, Ryan E. Cowley, William W. Brennessel, Christine J. Flaschenriem, Eckhard Bill, Thomas R. Cundari, Patrick L. Holland, "The Reactivity Patterns of Low-Coordinate Iron Hydride Complexes," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 6624-6638. (DOI)
31. Ryan E. Cowley, Jerome Elhaik, Nathan A. Eckert, William W. Brennessel, Eckhard Bill, Patrick L. Holland, "A bridging hexazene (RNNNNNNR) ligand from reductive coupling of azides," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 6074-6075. (DOI) (Highlight in Chemical & Engineering News)
30. Azwana R. Sadique, William W. Brennessel, and Patrick L. Holland, "Reduction of CO2 to CO Using
Low-Coordinate Iron: Formation of a Four-Coordinate Iron Dicarbonyl Complex and a Bridging Carbonate Complex," Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 784-786. (DOI)
29. Nicholas S. Lees, Rebecca L. McNaughton, Wilda Vargas Gregory, Patrick
L. Holland, and Brian M. Hoffman, "ENDOR Characterization of a Synthetic Diiron Hydrazido Complex as a
Model for Nitrogenase Intermediates," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 546-555. (DOI)
28. Azwana R. Sadique, Elizabeth A. Gregory, William W. Brennessel, and Patrick
L. Holland, "Mechanistic Insight into N=N Cleavage by a Low-Coordinate Iron(II)
Hydride Complex," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 8112-8121. (DOI) (Editor's Choice in Science)
27. Javier Vela, Liwei Zhu, Christine J. Flaschenriem, William W. Brennessel, Rene J.
Lachicotte, and Patrick L. Holland, "Macrocyclic Binucleating β-Diketiminate Ligands
and their Lithium, Aluminum, and Zinc Complexes," Organometallics 2007, 26, 3416-3423. (DOI)
26. Ying Yu, William W. Brennessel, and Patrick L. Holland, "Borane B-C Bond Cleavage by
a Low-Coordinate Iron Hydride Complex and N-N Bond Cleavage by the Hydridoborate Product,"
Organometallics 2007, 26, 3217-3226. (DOI)
25. Javier Vela, Jordi Cirera, Jeremy M. Smith, Rene J. Lachicotte, Christine J. Flaschenriem, Santiago Alvarez, and Patrick L. Holland, "Quantitative Geometric Descriptions of the Belt Iron Atoms of the Iron-Molybdenum Cofactor of Nitrogenase and Synthetic Iron(II) Model Complexes," Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 60-71. (DOI)
24. Nathan A. Eckert, Sridhar Vaddadi, Sebastian Stoian, Rene J.
Lachicotte, Thomas R. Cundari, and Patrick L. Holland, "Coordination Number Dependence of Reactivity
in an Imidoiron(III) Complex," Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 2006, 45, 6868-6871. (online)
23. Travis J. Hebden, William W. Brennessel, Christine J. Flaschenriem, and Patrick L. Holland,
"A dinucleating ligand related to the β-diketiminates,"Dalton Trans. 2006, 3855-3857. (DOI)
22. Sebastian A. Stoian, Javier Vela, Jeremy M. Smith, Azwana R. Sadique, Patrick L. Holland, Eckard Münck, and Emile L. Bominaar, "Mössbauer and Computational Study of an N2-Bridged Diiron Diketiminate Complex: Parallel Alignment of the Iron Spins by Direct Antiferromagnetic Exchange with Activated Dinitrogen," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 10181-10192. (DOI)
21. Ying Yu, Jeremy M. Smith, Christine J. Flaschenriem, and Patrick L. Holland, "Binding Affinity of Alkynes and Alkenes to Low-Coordinate Iron," Inorg. Chem. 2006, 45, 5742-5751. (DOI) (cover of Inorg. Chem.)
20. Javier Vela, Sridhar Vaddadi, Savariraj Kingsley, Christine J. Flaschenriem, Rene J.
Lachicotte, Thomas R. Cundari, Patrick L. Holland, "Bidentate Coordination of Pyrazolate in Low-Coordinate Iron(II) and Nickel(II) Complexes," Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 2006, 45, 1607-1611. (online)
19. Jeremy M. Smith, Azwana R. Sadique, Thomas R. Cundari, Kenton R. Rodgers, Gudrun Lukat-Rodgers, Rene J. Lachicotte, Christine J. Flaschenriem, Javier Vela, and Patrick L. Holland, "Studies of Low-Coordinate Iron Dinitrogen Complexes," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 756-769. (DOI)
18. Nathan A. Eckert, Adriana Dinescu, Thomas R. Cundari, Patrick L. Holland, "A T-Shaped Three-Coordinate Nickel(I) Carbonyl Complex and the Geometric Preferences of Three-Coordinate d9 Complexes," Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 7702-7704. (DOI)
17. Nathan A. Eckert, Sebastian Stoian, Jeremy M. Smith, Emile L. Bominaar, Eckard Münck, Patrick L. Holland, "Synthesis, Structure, and Spectroscopy of an Oxodiiron(II) Complex," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 9344-9345. (DOI)
16. Sebastian Stoian, Ying Yu, Jeremy M. Smith, Patrick L. Holland, Emile L.
Bominaar, Eckard Münck, "Mössbauer, EPR and Crystallographic
Characterization of a High-Spin Fe(I) Diketiminate Complex with Orbital
Degeneracy," Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 4915-4922. (DOI)
15. Javier Vela, Jeremy M. Smith, Ying Yu, Nicole A. Ketterer,
Christine J. Flaschenriem, Rene J. Lachicotte, Patrick L. Holland,
"Synthesis and Reactivity of Low-Coordinate Iron(II) Fluoride Complexes
and Their Use in the Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of Fluorocarbons," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 7857-7870. (DOI)
14. Elizabeth A. Gregory, Rene J. Lachicotte, Patrick L. Holland, "A Cationic Three-Coordinate Iron(II) Complex and the Reaction of Diketiminate with Ethyl Diazoacetate," Organometallics 2005, 24, 1803-1805. (DOI)
13. Patrick L. Holland, "Low-Coordinate Iron Complexes as Synthetic Models of Nitrogenase," Can. J. Chem. 2005, 83, 296-301. (online)
12. Javier Vela, Sridhar Vaddadi, Thomas R. Cundari, Jeremy M. Smith, Elizabeth A. Gregory, Rene J. Lachicotte, Christine J. Flaschenriem, Patrick L. Holland, "Reversible Beta-Hydrogen Elimination of Three-Coordinate Iron(II) Alkyl Complexes: Mechanistic and Thermodynamic Studies," Organometallics 2004, 23, 5226-5239. (DOI)
11. Nathan A. Eckert, Jeremy M. Smith, Rene J. Lachicotte, Patrick L. Holland, "Low-coordinate Fe(II) Amido Complexes of β-Diketiminates: Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity," Inorg. Chem. 2004, 43, 3306-3321. (DOI)
10. Javier Vela, Sebastian Stoian, Christine Flaschenriem, Eckard
Münck,
Patrick L. Holland, "A Sulfido-Bridged Diiron(II) Compound and Its
Reactions with Nitrogenase-Relevant Substrates," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 4522-4523. (DOI) (Highlight in Chemical & Engineering News)
9. Patrick L. Holland, "Nitrogen Fixation," In Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry 2 (McCleverty, J., Meyer, T. J., Eds.); Vol. 8; Elsevier: Oxford, 2004, pp. 569-599. (description)
8. Jeremy M. Smith, Rene J. Lachicotte, Patrick L. Holland, "N=N Bond Cleavage by a Low-Coordinate Iron(II) Hydride Complex," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 15752-15753. (DOI)
7. Nathan A. Eckert, Emily M. Bones, Rene J. Lachicotte, Patrick L. Holland, "Nickel Complexes of a Bulky β-Diketiminate Ligand," Inorg. Chem. 2003, 42, 1720-1725. (DOI)
6. Javier Vela, Jeremy M. Smith, Rene J. Lachicotte, Patrick L. Holland, "Alkyl group isomerisation in three-coordinate iron(II) complexes," Chem. Commun. 2002, 2886-2887. (PDF)
5. Patrick L. Holland, Thomas R. Cundari, Lanyn L. Perez, Nathan A. Eckert, Rene J. Lachicotte, "Electronically Unsaturated Three-Coordinate Chloride and Methyl Complexes of Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 14416-14424. (DOI)
4. Jeremy M. Smith, Rene J. Lachicotte, Patrick L. Holland, "Three-coordinate, 12-electron organometallic complexes of iron(II): synthesis and insertion of CO to give square pyramidal complexes," Organometallics 2002, 21, 4808-4814. (DOI)
3. Hanspeter Andres, Emile M. Bominaar, Jeremy M. Smith, Nathan A. Eckert, Patrick L. Holland, Eckard Münck, "Planar Three-Coordinate High-Spin Fe(II) Complexes with Large Orbital Angular Momentum: Mössbauer, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, and Electronic Structure Studies," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 3012-3025. (DOI)
2. Jeremy M. Smith, Rene J. Lachicotte, Karl A. Pittard, Thomas R. Cundari, Gudrun Lukat-Rodgers, Kenton R. Rodgers, Patrick L. Holland, "Stepwise Reduction of N-N Bond Order by a Low-Coordinate Iron Complex," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 9222-9223. (DOI)
1. Jeremy M. Smith, Rene J. Lachicotte, Patrick L. Holland, "Tuning Metal Coordination Number by Ancillary Ligand Steric Effects: Synthesis of a Three-Coordinate Iron(II) Complex," Chem. Commun. 2001, 1542-1543. (PDF)