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2390

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Clark R. Landis is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research focuses mainly on chemistry, with particular emphasis on organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, biomaterials, biomedical engineering, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics, including:

  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Biodegradable Polymer Synthesis and Properties
  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Carbon Dioxide Utilization in Catalysis
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes

Clark R. Landis has published several papers across distinguished journals. Some of the recent publications include:

  • Hydroformylation of pyrolysis oils to aldehydes and alcohols from polyolefin waste, 2023, Science
  • Quantitative Validation of the Living Coordinative Chain-Transfer Polymerization of 1-Hexene Using Chromophore Quench Labeling, 2020, Macromolecules
  • Nature of the Active Catalyst in the Hafnium-Pyridyl Amido-Catalyzed Alkene Polymerization, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • Benzoquinone Cocatalyst Contributions to DAF/Pd(OAc)2-Catalyzed Aerobic Allylic Acetoxylation in the Absence and Presence of a Co(salophen) Cocatalyst, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • Aliphatic amines from waste polyolefins by tandem pyrolysis, hydroformylation, and reductive amination, 2024, Green Chemistry

Publication venues where Clark R. Landis frequently contributes include:

  • ACS Catalysis
  • Science
  • Macromolecules
  • Green Chemistry
  • Value in Health

Frequent collaborators of Clark R. Landis include:

  • Houqian Li
  • George W. Huber
  • Eric S. Cueny
  • Jiayang Wu
  • Hesham Aboukeila

Clark R. Landis has been recognized with several fellowships:

  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2012
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2008

Best Publications

  • Valency and Bonding: A Natural Bond Orbital Donor-Acceptor Perspective

    Frank Weinhold;Clark R. Landis

  • NBO 6.0: natural bond orbital analysis program.

    Eric D. Glendening;Clark R. Landis;Frank Weinhold

  • Natural bond orbital methods

    Eric D. Glendening;Clark R. Landis;Frank Weinhold

  • All-Electron Scalar Relativistic Basis Sets for Third-Row Transition Metal Atoms.

    Dimitrios A. Pantazis;Xian-Yang Chen;Clark R. Landis;Frank Neese

  • NATURAL BOND ORBITALS AND EXTENSIONS OF LOCALIZED BONDING CONCEPTS

    Frank Weinhold;Clark R. Landis

  • What is NBO analysis and how is it useful

    F. Weinhold;C.R. Landis;E.D. Glendening

  • Discovering Chemistry with Natural Bond Orbitals: Weinhold/Discovering Chemistry

    Frank Weinhold;Clark R. Landis

  • Asymmetric hydrogenation of methyl (Z)-.alpha.-acetamidocinnamate catalyzed by [1,2-bis(phenyl-o-anisoyl)phosphino)ethane]rhodium(I): kinetics, mechanism and origin of enantioselection

    Clark R. Landis;Jack Halpern

  • Discovering Chemistry With Natural Bond Orbitals

    Frank Weinhold;Clark R. Landis

  • NBO 7.0: New vistas in localized and delocalized chemical bonding theory.

    Eric D. Glendening;Clark R. Landis;Frank Weinhold

  • Natural resonance theory. I. General formalism

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  • Ligands for practical rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric hydroformylation.

    Jerzy Klosin;Clark R. Landis

  • The shortest metal-metal bond yet: molecular and electronic structure of a dinuclear chromium diazadiene complex.

    Kevin A. Kreisel;Glenn P. A. Yap;Olga Dmitrenko;Clark R. Landis

  • Highly active, regioselective, and enantioselective hydroformylation with Rh catalysts ligated by Bis-3,4-diazaphospholanes.

    Thomas P. Clark;Clark R. Landis;Susan L. Freed;Jerzy Klosin

  • Large-Scale Computational Modeling of [Rh(DuPHOS)]+-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Prochiral Enamides: Reaction Pathways and the Origin of Enantioselection

    Steven Feldgus and;Clark R. Landis

  • Kinetics of initiation, propagation, and termination for the [rac-(C(2)H(4)(1-indenyl)(2))ZrMe][MeB(C(6)F(5))(3)]-catalyzed polymerization of 1-hexene.

    Zhixian Liu;Ekasith Somsook;Curtis B. White;Kimberly A. Rosaaen

  • SHAPES empirical force field: new treatment of angular potentials and its application to square-planar transition-metal complexes

    Viloya S. Allured;Christine M. Kelly;Clark R. Landis

  • VALENCE BOND CONCEPTS APPLIED TO THE MOLECULAR MECHANICS DESCRIPTION OF MOLECULAR SHAPES. 3. APPLICATIONS TO TRANSITION METAL ALKYLS AND HYDRIDES

    Clark R. Landis;Thomas Cleveland;Timothy K. Firman

  • Natural Bond Orbital Methods

    Frank Weinhold

  • Valence Bond Concepts Applied to the Molecular Mechanics Description of Molecular Shapes. 2. Applications to Hypervalent Molecules of the P-Block

    Thomas Cleveland and;Clark R. Landis

  • Molecular mechanics and NOE investigations of the solution structures of intermediates in the [rhodium(chiral bisphosphine)]+-catalyzed hydrogenation of prochiral enamides

    Janet S. Giovannetti;Christine M. Kelly;Clark R. Landis

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Weinhold
Frank Weinhold University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shannon S. Stahl
Shannon S. Stahl University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jonathan S. Owen
Jonathan S. Owen Columbia University
Jack Halpern
Jack Halpern University of Chicago
Charles P. Casey
Charles P. Casey University of Wisconsin–Madison
Konstantin M. Neyman
Konstantin M. Neyman University of Barcelona
Khalil A. Abboud
Khalil A. Abboud University of Florida
Notker Rösch
Notker Rösch Technical University of Munich
Karen I. Goldberg
Karen I. Goldberg University of Pennsylvania
Ayusman Sen
Ayusman Sen Pennsylvania State University

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