Alan J. Lough

Research.com Recognitions

• 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Synthesis, x-ray crystal structures, and cation-binding properties of alkyl calixaryl esters and ketones, a new family of macrocyclic molecular receptors

  Francoise Arnaud-Neu;Elizabeth M. Collins;Mary Deasy;George Ferguson

  820
  Citations

• Easily prepared air- and moisture-stable Pd-NHC (NHC=N-heterocyclic carbene) complexes: a reliable, user-friendly, highly active palladium precatalyst for the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction

  Christopher J. O'Brien;Eric Assen B. Kantchev;Cory Valente;Niloufar Hadei

  763
  Citations

• Transition Metal-Catalyzed Formation of Boron−Nitrogen Bonds: Catalytic Dehydrocoupling of Amine-Borane Adducts to Form Aminoboranes and Borazines

  Cory A. Jaska;Karen Temple;and Alan J. Lough;Ian Manners

  676
  Citations

• Mechanism of the hydrogenation of ketones catalyzed by trans-dihydrido(diamine)ruthenium II complexes.

  ‡ Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid;Sean E. Clapham;Alen Hadzovic;Jeremy N. Harvey

  580
  Citations

• Amine(imine)diphosphine iron catalysts for asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones and imines.

  Weiwei Zuo;Alan J. Lough;Young Feng Li;Robert H. Morris

  525
  Citations

• Lamellar aluminophosphates with surface patterns that mimic diatom and radiolarian microskeletons

  Scott Oliver;Alex Kuperman;Neil Coombs;Alan Lough

  476
  Citations

• Pd‐PEPPSI‐IPent: An Active, Sterically Demanding Cross‐Coupling Catalyst and Its Application in the Synthesis of Tetra‐Ortho‐Substituted Biaryls

  Michael G. Organ;Selçuk Çalimsiz;Mahmoud Sayah;Ka Hou Hoi

  456
  Citations

• Linear Oligo(ferrocenyldimethylsilanes) with between Two and Nine Ferrocene Units: Electrochemical and Structural Models for Poly(ferrocenylsilane) High Polymers

  Ron Rulkens;Alan J. Lough;Ian Manners;Sherri R. Lovelace

  404
  Citations

• Highly Efficient Catalyst Systems Using Iron Complexes with a Tetradentate PNNP Ligand for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Polar Bonds

  Christine Sui-Seng;Friederike Freutel;Alan J. Lough;Robert H. Morris

  399
  Citations

• Catalytic cycle for the asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral ketones to chiral alcohols: direct hydride and proton transfer from chiral catalysts trans-Ru(H)(2)(diphosphine)(diamine) to ketones and direct addition of dihydrogen to the resulting hydridoamido complexes.

  Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid;Michael Faatz;and Alan J. Lough;Robert H. Morris

  396
  Citations

• Identification of 1,3-dialkylimidazolium salt supramolecular aggregates in solution.

  Crestina S. Consorti;Paulo A. Z. Suarez;Roberto F. De Souza;Robert A. Burrow

  366
  Citations

• Switching On and Off a New Intramolecular Hydrogen-Hydrogen Interaction and the Heterolytic Splitting of Dihydrogen. Crystal and Molecular Structure of [Ir{H(.eta.1-SC5H4NH)}2(PCy3)2]BF4.cntdot.2.7CH2Cl2

  Alan J. Lough;Sunghan Park;Ravindranath Ramachandran;Robert H. Morris

  352
  Citations

• Rhodium-catalyzed formation of boron–nitrogen bonds: a mild route to cyclic aminoboranes and borazines

  Cory A. Jaska;Karen Temple;Alan J. Lough;Ian Manners

  326
  Citations

• Iron(II) Complexes Containing Unsymmetrical P–N–P′ Pincer Ligands for the Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones and Imines

  Paraskevi O. Lagaditis;Peter E. Sues;Jessica F. Sonnenberg;Kai Yang Wan

  317
  Citations

• Dihydrogen with Frequency of Motion Near the 1H Larmor Frequency. Solid-State Structures and Solution NMR Spectroscopy of Osmium Complexes trans-[Os(H··H)X(PPh2CH2CH2PPh2)2]+ (X = Cl, Br)

  Patricia A. Maltby;Marcel Schlaf;Martin Steinbeck;Alan J. Lough

  310
  Citations

• Osmium and Ruthenium Catalysts for Dehydrogenation of Alcohols

  Marcello Bertoli;Aldjia Choualeb;Alan J. Lough;Brandon Moore

  310
  Citations

• Efficient asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones catalyzed by an iron complex containing a P-N-N-P tetradentate ligand formed by template synthesis.

  Alexandre Mikhailine;Alan J. Lough;Robert H. Morris

  308
  Citations

• Structure-Activity Relationship Analysis of Pd-PEPPSI Complexes in Cross-Couplings: A Close Inspection of the Catalytic Cycle and the Precatalyst Activation Model

  Joanna Nasielski;Nilofaur Hadei;George Achonduh;Eric Assen B. Kantchev

  301
  Citations

• Transition Metal-Catalyzed Formation of Phosphorus−Boron Bonds: A New Route to Phosphinoborane Rings, Chains, and Macromolecules

  Hendrik Dorn;Ryan A. Singh;Jason A. Massey;James M. Nelson

  278
  Citations

• An Acidity Scale for Phosphorus-Containing Compounds Including Metal Hydrides and Dihydrogen Complexes in THF: Toward the Unification of Acidity Scales

  Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid;Tina P. Fong;Bronwyn Greaves;Dmitry G. Gusev

  275
  Citations