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Alan L. Balch is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with a specialization in materials chemistry. The subfields of study extend into organic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and oncology.

The scientist's main research topics include crystallization and solubility studies, as well as X-ray diffraction in crystallography. Additional areas of focus are fullerene chemistry and applications, carbon nanotubes in composites, organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, graphene research and applications, and magnetism in coordination complexes.

Major publication venues for their work include The Cambridge Structural Database, where they have contributed extensively, alongside Inorganic Chemistry, Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, Chemical Communications, and Polyhedron.

Frequent collaborators in research efforts include Marilyn M. Olmstead, Mrittika Roy, Lucy M. C. Luong, James C. Fettinger, and Daniel T. Walters.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Alan L. Balch demonstrate a focus on coordination chemistry and crystallization processes. These include:

  • Role of Anions and Mixtures of Anions on the Thermochromism, Vapochromism, and Polymorph Formation of Luminescent Crystals of a Single Cation, [(C6H11NC)2Au]+ (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Electrochemistry of fullerene/transition metal complexes: Three decades of progress (2020), Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Direct Crystallization of Diamine Radical Cations: Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Formation from the Reaction of Triphenylamine with TiCl4, TiBr4, or SnCl4 versus Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation with SbCl5 (2022), Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Unsymmetrical Coordination of Bipyridine in Three-Coordinate Gold(I) Complexes (2020), Inorganic Chemistry
  • Seeing luminescence appear as crystals crumble. Isolation and subsequent self-association of individual [(C6H11NC)2Au]+ions in crystals (2020), Chemical Science

Best Publications

  • Small-bandgap endohedral metallofullerenes in high yield and purity

    S. Stevenson;G. Rice;T. Glass;K. Harich

  • REACTIONS OF TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES WITH FULLERENES (C60, C70, ETC.) AND RELATED MATERIALS

    Alan L. Balch;Marilyn M. Olmstead

  • Para hydrogen induced polarization in hydrogenation reactions

    Thomas C. Eisenschmid;Rein U. Kirss;Paul P. Deutsch;Sven I. Hommeltoft

  • Solvent‐Stimulated Luminescence from the Supramolecular Aggregation of a Trinuclear Gold(I) Complex that Displays Extensive Intermolecular AuċAu Interactions

    Jess C. Vickery;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Ella Y. Fung;Alan L. Balch

  • Interaction of Curved and Flat Molecular Surfaces. The Structures of Crystalline Compounds Composed of Fullerene (C60, C60O, C70, and C120O) and Metal Octaethylporphyrin Units

    Marilyn M. Olmstead;David A. Costa;Kalyani Maitra;Bruce C. Noll

  • Endohedral metallofullerenes: a unique host–guest association

    Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea;Alan L. Balch;Josep M. Poblet

  • Dynamic Crystals: Visually Detected Mechanochemical Changes in the Luminescence of Gold and Other Transition‐Metal Complexes

    Alan L. Balch

  • Structural characterization of horseradish peroxidase using EXAFS spectroscopy: evidence for Fe=O ligation in compounds I and II

    James E. Penner-Hahn;Kim. Smith Eble;Thomas J. McMurry;Mark. Renner

  • Complete Electron-Transfer Series of the [M-N4] Type

    Alan L. Balch;R. H. Holm

  • (.eta.2-C70)Ir(CO)Cl(PPh3)2: the synthesis and structure of an iridium organometallic derivative of a higher fullerene

    Alan L. Balch;Vincent J. Catalano;Joong W. Lee;Marilyn M. Olmstead

  • Isolation and Structural Characterization of the Endohedral Fullerene Sc3N@C78

    Marilyn M. Olmstead;Ana de Bettencourt-Dias;James C. Duchamp;Steven Stevenson

  • Bonding within the Endohedral Fullerenes Sc3N@C78 and Sc3N@C80 as Determined by Density Functional Calculations and Reexamination of the Crystal Structure of {Sc3N@C78}·Co(OEP)}·1.5(C6H6)·0.3(CHCl3)

    Josep M. Campanera;Carles Bo;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Alan L. Balch

  • A Distorted Tetrahedral Metal Oxide Cluster inside an Icosahedral Carbon Cage. Synthesis, Isolation, and Structural Characterization of Sc4(μ3-O)2@Ih-C80

    Steven Stevenson;Mary A. Mackey;Melissa A. Stuart;J. Paige Phillips

  • Aurophilic interactions in cationic gold complexes with two isocyanide ligands. Polymorphic yellow and colorless forms of [(cyclohexyl isocyanide)2AuI](PF6) with distinct luminescence.

    Rochelle L. White-Morris;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Alan L. Balch

  • Accumulating evidence for the selective reactivity of the 6-6 ring fusion of fullerene, C60. Preparation and structure of (.eta.2-C60)Ir(CO)Cl(PPh3)2.cntdot.5C6H6

    Alan L. Balch;Vincent J. Catalano;Joong W. Lee

  • Sc3N@C68: Folded Pentalene Coordination in an Endohedral Fullerene that Does Not Obey the Isolated Pentagon Rule

    Marilyn M. Olmstead;Hon Man Lee;James C. Duchamp;Steven Stevenson

  • Isolation and Crystallographic Characterization of ErSc2N@C80: an Endohedral Fullerene Which Crystallizes with Remarkable Internal Order

    Marilyn M. Olmstead;Ana de Bettencourt-Dias;James C. Duchamp;S. Stevenson

  • A symmetric derivative of the trimetallic nitride endohedral metallofullerene, Sc3N@C80.

    Erick B. Iezzi;James C. Duchamp;Kim Harich;Tom E. Glass

  • Remarkable Variations in the Luminescence of Frozen Solutions of [Au{C(NHMe)2}2](PF6)·0.5(Acetone). Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of the Effects of Anions and Solvents on Gold(I) Carbene Complexes

    Rochelle L. White-Morris;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Feilong Jiang;Dino S. Tinti

  • Mechanism of autoxidation of iron(II) porphyrins. Detection of a peroxo-bridged iron(III) porphyrin dimer and the mechanism of its thermal decomposition to the oxo-bridged iron(III) porphyrin dimer

    Der-Hang Chin;Gerd N. La Mar;Alan L. Balch

Frequent Co-Authors

Marilyn M. Olmstead
Marilyn M. Olmstead University of California, Davis
Lechosław Latos-Grażyński
Lechosław Latos-Grażyński University of Wrocław
Harry C. Dorn
Harry C. Dorn Virginia Tech
Luis Echegoyen
Luis Echegoyen The University of Texas at El Paso
Gerd N. La Mar
Gerd N. La Mar University of California, Davis
Steven Stevenson
Steven Stevenson Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
Brandon Q. Mercado
Brandon Q. Mercado Yale University
Vincent J. Catalano
Vincent J. Catalano University of Nevada Reno
Josep M. Poblet
Josep M. Poblet Rovira i Virgili University
Takeshi Akasaka
Takeshi Akasaka Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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