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Overview

Douglas R. Powell is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their primary research areas span across materials science and chemistry, with a focus on subfields including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, oncology, and molecular biology.

Their recent scholarly contributions include several papers published predominantly between 2020 and 2022. Notable works include:

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Cu(II) and Mixed-Valence Cu(I)Cu(II) Clusters Supported by Pyridylamide Ligands (2020, Inorganic Chemistry)
  • Colorimetric and spectroscopic cobalt(II) sensing by a simple Schiff base (2020, Polyhedron)
  • Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells Exhibit Differential Sensitivity to Cardenolides from Calotropis gigantea (2020, Journal of Natural Products)
  • Zinc Ammonio-dodecaborates: Synthesis, Lewis Acid Strength, and Reactivity (2022, Inorganic Chemistry)
  • Rapid Enantioselective and Diastereoconvergent Hybrid Organic/Biocatalytic Entry into the Oseltamivir Core (2021, The Journal of Organic Chemistry)

Powell frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include George B. Richter-Addo, Petra J. Pederson, Shengxin Cai, Chase M. Carver, and April L. Risinger. These collaborations are reflected in multiple publications over several years.

Their work is regularly published in specific scientific venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in The Cambridge Structural Database. Other frequent publication venues include:

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Acta Crystallographica Section E Crystallographic Communications
  • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • IUCrData

Powell's research topics cover a variety of themes within chemistry and materials science. Key topics they have addressed are:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions

This research profile highlights a focus on crystallographic methods and materials chemistry, supported by interdisciplinary studies in organic and inorganic chemistry and oncology. The diversity of journals and research topics illustrates a broad engagement with chemical sciences and related fields.

Best Publications

  • Structural variation in copper(I) complexes with pyridylmethylamide ligands: structural analysis with a new four-coordinate geometry index, tau4.

    Lei Yang;Douglas R. Powell;Robert P. Houser

  • Residue-based control of helix shape in beta-peptide oligomers.

    Daniel H. Appella;Laurie A. Christianson;Daniel A. Klein;Douglas R. Powell

  • Hydrogen Transfer to Carbonyls and Imines from a Hydroxycyclopentadienyl Ruthenium Hydride: Evidence for Concerted Hydride and Proton Transfer

    Charles P. Casey;Steven W. Singer;Douglas R. Powell;and Randy K. Hayashi

  • Diphosphines with natural bite angles near 120.degree. increase selectivity for n-aldehyde formation in rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation

    Charles P. Casey;Gregory T. Whiteker;Margaret G. Melville;Lori M. Petrovich

  • Ammonium based anion receptors

    José M. Llinares;Douglas Powell;Kristin Bowman-James

  • Towards Main‐Chain‐Polyoxometalate‐Containing Hybrid Polymers: A Highly Efficient Approach to Bifunctionalized Organoimido Derivatives of Hexamolybdates

    Lin Xu;Meng Lu;Bubin Xu;Yongge Wei

  • Nanosized Pd145(CO)x(PEt3)30 Containing a Capped Three‐Shell 145‐Atom Metal‐Core Geometry of Pseudo Icosahedral Symmetry

    Nguyet T. Tran;Douglas R. Powell;Lawrence F. Dahl

  • New polyamide cryptand for anion binding.

    Sung Ok Kang;José M Llinares;Douglas Powell;David VanderVelde

  • Electron Withdrawing Substituents on Equatorial and Apical Phosphines Have Opposite Effects on the Regioselectivity of Rhodium Catalyzed Hydroformylation

    Charles P. Casey;Evelyn Lin Paulsen;Eckart W. Beuttenmueller;Bernd R. Proft

  • Poly((2,5-dialkoxy-p-phenylene)ethynylene-p-phenyleneethynylene)s and Their Model Compounds

    Hong Li;Douglas R. Powell;Randy K. Hayashi;Robert West

  • Antiparallel Sheet Formation in β-Peptide Foldamers: Effects of β-Amino Acid Substitution on Conformational Preference1

    Susanne Krauthäuser;Laurie A. Christianson;Douglas R. Powell;Samuel H. Gellman

  • Multiple hydrogen bond stabilization of a sandwich complex of sulfate between two macrocyclic tetraamides.

    Md. Alamgir Hossain;José M. Llinares;Douglas Powell;Kristin Bowman-James

  • Synthesis and Reactivity of a Stable Silylene

    Michael Haaf;Andreas Schmiedl;Thomas A. Schmedake;Douglas R. Powell

  • Chemical Epigenetics Alters the Secondary Metabolite Composition of Guttate Excreted by an Atlantic-Forest-Soil-Derived Penicillium citreonigrum

    Xiaoru Wang;José G. Sena Filho;Ashley R. Hoover;Jarrod B. King

  • Synthesis and characterization of a new mixed-metal oxide framework material composed of vanadium oxide clusters: X-ray crystal structure of (N2H5)2[Zn3VIV12VV6O42(SO4)(H2O)12]·24H2O

    M. Ishaque Khan;Elizabeth Yohannes;Douglas Powell

  • A β-Peptide Reverse Turn that Promotes Hairpin Formation

    Yong Jun Chung;Laurie A. Christianson;Heather E. Stanger;Douglas R. Powell

  • Inductive effects on the structure of proline residues

    Nicholas Panasik;Eric S. Eberhardt;Arthur S. Edison;Douglas R. Powell

  • Molecular and polymeric hybrids based on covalently linked polyoxometalates and transition-metal complexes.

    Jeonghee Kang;Bubin Xu;Zhonghua Peng;Xiaodong Zhu

  • ASYMMETRIC MEMORY AT LABILE, STEREOGENIC BORON : ENOLATE ALKYLATION OF OXAZABOROLIDINONES

    E. Vedejs;S. C. Fields;R. Hayashi;S. R. Hitchcock

  • The Dianion of Tetraphenylgermole is Aromatic

    Robert West;Honglae Sohn;Douglas R. Powell;Thomas Müller

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert West
Robert West University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen F. Nelsen
Stephen F. Nelsen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Charles P. Casey
Charles P. Casey University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kristin Bowman-James
Kristin Bowman-James University of Kansas
Samuel H. Gellman
Samuel H. Gellman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bryan M. Wong
Bryan M. Wong University of California, Riverside
Rustem F. Ismagilov
Rustem F. Ismagilov California Institute of Technology
Lawrence F. Dahl
Lawrence F. Dahl University of Wisconsin–Madison
Frank R. Fronczek
Frank R. Fronczek Louisiana State University
Yongge Wei
Yongge Wei Tsinghua University

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