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Eric J. Schelter is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and is active in the fields of materials science and chemistry. Their research spans multiple subfields, including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

The primary focus of their work involves crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, lanthanide and transition metal complexes, organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, radioactive element chemistry and processing, magnetism in coordination complexes, and crystallography and molecular interactions.

Frequent collaboration has been a significant aspect of their research, with prominent coauthors including Patrick J. Carroll, Michael R. Gau, Thibault Cheisson, Robert F. Higgins, and Pragati Pandey.

The scientist's publications are often found in several notable venues, with multiple contributions to The Cambridge Structural Database, Inorganic Chemistry, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Science, and Accounts of Chemical Research.

Recent publications reflect a broad range of topics and venues:

  • Photocatalytic C-H activation and the subtle role of chlorine radical complexation in reactivity, 2021, Science
  • Discovery and mechanistic investigation of photoinduced sp3 C-H activation of hydrocarbons by the simple anion hexachlorotitanate, 2022, Chem Catalysis
  • High-throughput screening for discovery of benchtop separations systems for selected rare earth elements, 2020, Communications Chemistry
  • Correlating Mechanical Sensitivity with Spin Transition in the Explosive Spin Crossover Complex [Fe(Htrz)3]n[ClO4]2n, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Coordination Chemistry-Driven Approaches to Rare Earth Element Separations, 2022, Accounts of Chemical Research

Best Publications

  • Rare earth elements: Mendeleev's bane, modern marvels.

    Thibault Cheisson;Eric J. Schelter

  • Lanthanide Photocatalysis.

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  • Molecular cube of Re(II) and Mn(II) that exhibits single-molecule magnetism.

    Eric J. Schelter;and Andrey V. Prosvirin;Kim R. Dunbar

  • Photocatalytic C–H activation and the subtle role of chlorine radical complexation in reactivity

    Qiaomu Yang;Yu-Heng Wang;Yusen Qiao;Michael Gau

  • The electrochemical behavior of cerium(III/IV) complexes: Thermodynamics, kinetics and applications in synthesis

    Nicholas A. Piro;Jerome R. Robinson;Patrick J. Walsh;Eric J. Schelter

  • Organometallic uranium(V)-imido halide complexes: from synthesis to electronic structure and bonding.

    Christopher R. Graves;Ping Yang;Stosh A. Kozimor;Anthony E. Vaughn

  • A family of mixed-metal cyanide cubes with alternating octahedral and tetrahedral corners exhibiting a variety of magnetic behaviors including single molecule magnetism.

    Eric J. Schelter;Ferdi Karadas;Carolina Avendano;Andrey V. Prosvirin

  • Harnessing redox activity for the formation of uranium tris(imido) compounds

    Nickolas H. Anderson;Samuel O. Odoh;Yiyi Yao;Ursula J. Williams

  • Luminescent Ce(III) Complexes as Stoichiometric and Catalytic Photoreductants for Halogen Atom Abstraction Reactions.

    Haolin Yin;Patrick J. Carroll;Jessica M. Anna;Eric J. Schelter

  • Cerium Photosensitizers: Structure-Function Relationships and Applications in Photocatalytic Aryl Coupling Reactions.

    Haolin Yin;Patrick J. Carroll;Brian C. Manor;Jessica M. Anna

  • Cation-cation interactions, magnetic communication, and reactivity of the pentavalent uranium ion [U(NtBu)2]+.

    Liam P. Spencer;Eric J. Schelter;Ping Yang;Robyn L. Gdula

  • NiXantphos: a deprotonatable ligand for room-temperature palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings of aryl chlorides

    Jiadi Zhang;Ana Bellomo;Nisalak Trongsiriwat;Tiezheng Jia

  • Probing the chemistry, electronic structure and redox energetics in organometallic pentavalent uranium complexes.

    Christopher R. Graves;Anthony E. Vaughn;Eric J. Schelter;Brian L. Scott

  • An Operationally Simple Method for Separating the Rare-Earth Elements Neodymium and Dysprosium**

    Justin A. Bogart;Connor A. Lippincott;Patrick J. Carroll;Eric J. Schelter

  • Evidence for the involvement of 5f orbitals in the bonding and reactivity of organometallic actinide compounds: thorium(IV) and uranium(IV) bis(hydrazonato) complexes.

    Thibault Cantat;Christopher R Graves;Kimberly C Jantunen;Carol J Burns

  • The Hexachlorocerate(III) Anion: A Potent, Benchtop Stable, and Readily Available Ultraviolet A Photosensitizer for Aryl Chlorides

    Haolin Yin;Yi Jin;Jerald E. Hertzog;Jerald E. Hertzog;Kimberly C. Mullane

  • Synthesis, characterization, and multielectron reduction chemistry of uranium supported by redox-active α-diimine ligands.

    Steven J. Kraft;Ursula J. Williams;Scott R. Daly;Eric J. Schelter

  • Cerium(IV) Imido Complexes: Structural, Computational, and Reactivity Studies

    Lukman A Solola;Alexander V Zabula;Walter L Dorfner;Brian C Manor

  • Systematic studies of early actinide complexes: uranium(IV) fluoroketimides.

    Eric J. Schelter;Ping Yang;Brian L. Scott;J. D. Thompson

  • Photoinduced Miyaura Borylation by a Rare‐Earth‐Metal Photoreductant: The Hexachlorocerate(III) Anion

    Yusen Qiao;Qiaomu Yang;Eric J. Schelter

  • The Impact of Ligand Reorganization on Cerium(III) Oxidation Chemistry

    Jerome R. Robinson;Patrick J. Carroll;Patrick J. Walsh;Eric J. Schelter

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Carroll
Patrick J. Carroll University of Pennsylvania
Patrick J. Walsh
Patrick J. Walsh University of Pennsylvania
Brian L. Scott
Brian L. Scott Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jaqueline L. Kiplinger
Jaqueline L. Kiplinger Los Alamos National Laboratory
David E. Morris
David E. Morris Los Alamos National Laboratory
Kim R. Dunbar
Kim R. Dunbar Texas A&M University
Corwin H. Booth
Corwin H. Booth Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Enrique R. Batista
Enrique R. Batista Los Alamos National Laboratory
John Bacsa
John Bacsa Emory University
Matthias Zeller
Matthias Zeller Purdue University West Lafayette

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